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"Kavanagh leaves us with a series of specific, provocative insights into several novels and a solid basis for a cultural history of gambling under the ancien regime."--Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
"This is an important study, brilliantly argued on its own terms, but more importantly, a study that is bound to have major implications for the way we, critics, will understand the French Enlightenment."--Josué V. Harari, Emory University.
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"Kavanagh leaves us with a series of specific, provocative insights into several novels and a solid basis for a cultural history of gambling under the ancien regime." -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0801845491
- ISBN 13 9780801845499
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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Enlightenment and the shadows of chance : the novel and the culture of gambling in eighteenth-century France / Thomas M. Kavanagh
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index. Contents; pt. 1. Chance and the Culture of Enlightenment. 1. The Triumph of Probability Theory. 2. Gambling as Social Practice. 3. Law's System and the Gamble Refused -- pt. 2. Chance and the Novel. 4. Toward a Novel of Experience. 5. Jean de Prechac and the Noble's Wager. 6. Chance, Reading, and the Tragedy of Experience: Prevost's Manon Lescaut. 7. The Ironies of Chance: Voltaire's Candide and Zadig. 8. Writing of No Consequence: Vivant Denon's Point de lendemain. 9. The Moment's Notice: Crebillon's Game of Libertinage. 10. Chance's Untellable Tale: Diderot's Jacques le fataliste. Subjects; 1700-1799. Geschichte 1700-1800. French fiction 18th century History and criticism. Literature and society France History 18th century. Gambling in literature. Enlightenment France. Chance in literature. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 426345
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Enlightenment and the shadows of chance : the novel and the culture of gambling in eighteenth-century France / Thomas M. Kavanagh
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index. Contents; pt. 1. Chance and the Culture of Enlightenment. 1. The Triumph of Probability Theory. 2. Gambling as Social Practice. 3. Law's System and the Gamble Refused -- pt. 2. Chance and the Novel. 4. Toward a Novel of Experience. 5. Jean de Prechac and the Noble's Wager. 6. Chance, Reading, and the Tragedy of Experience: Prevost's Manon Lescaut. 7. The Ironies of Chance: Voltaire's Candide and Zadig. 8. Writing of No Consequence: Vivant Denon's Point de lendemain. 9. The Moment's Notice: Crebillon's Game of Libertinage. 10. Chance's Untellable Tale: Diderot's Jacques le fataliste. Subjects; 1700-1799. Geschichte 1700-1800. French fiction 18th century History and criticism. Literature and society France History 18th century. Gambling in literature. Enlightenment France. Chance in literature. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 426345
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