The Romance Of Gambling In The Eighteenth Century British Novel
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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth Century British Novel
Author | : Jessica Richard |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2011-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230307278 |
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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.
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author | : Bob Harris |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316512449 |
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This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
Sympathy Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : I. Csengei |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230359178 |
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What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth Century Literature
Author | : Emrys Jones |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013-06-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137300508 |
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Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author | : Amy Prendergast |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137512710 |
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The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.
Eighteenth Century Vitalism
Author | : C. Packham |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230368392 |
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This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s.
Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century Periodical Essay
Author | : R. Squibbs |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2014-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137378248 |
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Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
Women of Letters Manuscript Circulation and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : M. Bigold |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137033574 |
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Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.