Richard, Jessica
The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
1. Introduction: The Gambling Culture of Eighteenth-Century Britain
Jessica Richard
2. “Putting to Hazard a Certainty”: Lotteries and the Romance of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
Jessica Richard
3. Cheating, Calculation, and the Episodic Romance of Gambling
Jessica Richard
4. The Gambling Man of Feeling: Sublime and Sentimental Gambling
Jessica Richard
5. The Lady’s Last Stake:
Jessica Richard
6. Children’s Games “Abroad and at Home”:
Jessica Richard
7. The Confidence Man:
Jessica Richard
8. Afterword: The Eighteenth-Century Risk Society
Jessica Richard
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Social History, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory
- Author(s)
- Richard, Jessica
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Page amount
- 212 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230307278
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-32662-4