The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century british novel

"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"--

שנה

2011

שפה

English

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

1

עמודים

201

ISBN

9780230278875

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata