Introduction: the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain
'Putting to Hazard a Certainty': lotteries and the romance of gambling in eighteenth-century England: Sir Charles Grandison, The Excursion
Cheating, calculation, and the episodic romance of gambling: Hoyle's Short Treatise, Ferdinand Count Fathom, Amelia
The gambling man of feeling: sublime and sentimental gambling: Cecilia, The Adventures of David Simple, The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Lady's Last Stake: Camilla and the Female Gambler
Children's games 'Abroad and at Home': Belinda, education, and empire
The confidence man: Persuasion and the Romance of risk
Afterword: the eighteenth-century risk society.
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The romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century British novel by Jessica Anne Richard. ISBN 9780230278875. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
