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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.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Jessica Richard |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2011-05-17 |
File |
: 213 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780230307278 |
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This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Bob Harris |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2022-03-17 |
File |
: 331 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781316512449 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: I. Csengei |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
File |
: 272 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780230359178 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Amy Prendergast |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2015-08-25 |
File |
: 238 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137512710 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Emrys Jones |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2013-06-13 |
File |
: 200 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137300508 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: C. Packham |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2012-01-31 |
File |
: 246 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780230368392 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: M. Bigold |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2013-01-12 |
File |
: 271 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137033574 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: R. Squibbs |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2014-01-20 |
File |
: 197 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137378248 |
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This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.
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Genre |
: Fiction |
Author |
: Gillian Russell |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
File |
: 270 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137474315 |
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Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective ‘logics’ of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Julia Hoydis |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Release |
: 2019-09-23 |
File |
: 674 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110615418 |