| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
RichardJessica Anne, 1974- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print |
| Subject: |
English fiction - History and criticism. - 18th century - |
| Subject: |
Gambling in literature. - |
| Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - |
| Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - General. - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY - Social History. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307278An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| Summary: |
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: |
9780230307278electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230307272electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780230278875Cloth |
| ISBN: |
0230278876Cloth |
| ISBN: |
1283124785 |
| ISBN: |
9781283124782 |
| Content Note: |
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. |