Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel : A Leprosy is O'er the Land

ISBN-13: 9781903900185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 254 str.

Michael Flavin

Opis

This book examines the representation of gambling in a wide range of 19th-century English novels and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. "Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel" not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes toward leisure changed.