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  • The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823/.5093579
    書名/作者: The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel/ Jessica Richard.
    作者: Richard, Jessica Anne,
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    附註: Includes index.
    標題: English fiction - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: Gambling in literature.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM - European
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM - General.
    標題: HISTORY - Social History.
    ISBN: 9780230307278 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230307272 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230278875 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230278876 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 1283124785
    ISBN: 9781283124782
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
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