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Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Jessica Richard
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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jessica Richard EAN: 9780230278875 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 400 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-05-17 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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      JESSICA RICHARD is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published articles on Rasselas, Belinda, and Frankenstein. She is the editor of The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Broadview, 2008).
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jessica Richard EAN: 9780230278875 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 400 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-05-17 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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      JESSICA RICHARD is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published articles on Rasselas, Belinda, and Frankenstein. She is the editor of The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Broadview, 2008).

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