The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Jessica Richard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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. | The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Jessica Richard, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters