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The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novelJessica Richard.
Author:	Richard, Jessica Anne,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2011.
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	Gambling in literature.
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230307278 (electronic bk.)

The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel
Richard, Jessica Anne,1974-

The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel[electronic resource] /Jessica Richard. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. - Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print..

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain -- 'Putting to hazard a certainty': lotteries and the romance of gambling in eighteenth-century England (Sir Charles Grandison, The excursion) -- Cheating, calculation, and the episodic romance of gambling (Hoyle's Short treatise, Ferdinand Count Fathom, Amelia) -- The gambling man of feeling: sublime and sentimental gambling (Cecilia, The adventures of David Simple, The mysteries of Udolpho) -- The lady's last stake: Camilla and the female gambler -- Children's games 'abroad and at home': Belinda, education, and empire -- The confidence man: persuasion and the romance of risk -- Afterword: the eighteenth-century risk society -- Works cited -- Index.

From high-stakes Faro to lottery insurance to petty wagers, even to the very instruments of the Financial Revolution, gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. Jessica Richard argues that the romance of gambling, its celebration of the chance incalculable event, the heroic achievement against all odds, the lucky break, is foundational to eighteenth-century British culture and as such a central concern for the period's novels. Analyzing works by Richardson, Brooke, Smollett, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Burney, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Austen, along with gambling ephemera such as playing cards and games manuals, Richard shows that novelists use gambling scenarios not to tame chance but to interrogate its role in generic form and in a transforming capital economy inspired by and dependent on gambling.

ISBN: 9780230307278 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613124784

Source: 472061Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

641560
Gambling in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR858.G32 / R53 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.5093579

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