The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Jessica Richard
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781349326624
- ISBN-10
- 1349326623
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2011
- Publication date
- 2011-01-01
- Pages
- 201
- Dimensions
- 216x140x