The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel PDF
by Jessica Richard
Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print series
Description
Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes.
This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.
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- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Publication Date:17/05/2011
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- ISBN:9780230307278
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Publication Date:17/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780230307278