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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel - Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Jessica Richard
The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel - Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Jessica Richard
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.
216 pages, 3 black & white halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 17, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230278875 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 201 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 222 × 18 mm · 408 g |