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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230307278

ISBN: 978-1-349-32662-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2015

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Introduction: The Gambling Culture of Eighteenth-Century Britain

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 1 –17

[Hogarth’s The Gaming House from A Rake’s Progress (1733) might strike a twenty-first-century viewer as a typical image of the gambling that was ubiquitous in eighteenth-century British social life (Figure 1). It depicts a raucous assemblage of men gathered around gaming tables with wigs askew,...
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“Putting to Hazard a Certainty”: Lotteries and the Romance of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 18 –44

[In London, on January 6, 1662 (n.s.) Charles II opened the first Epiphany revels of the Restoration, celebrating the final night of an especially festive Christmas season “by throwing the Dice himselfe, in the Privy Chamber, where a table was set on purpose, & lost his 100 pounds” (Evelyn...
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Cheating, Calculation, and the Episodic Romance of Gambling

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 45 –85

[The politician Charles James Fox was an infamously prolific gambler. Horace Walpole reported, for example, that before the parliamentary debate on a new Marriage Bill in January 1772, Foxhad sat up playing hazard at Almack’s, from Tuesday evening 6th, till five in the afternoon of Wednesday 7th....
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The Gambling Man of Feeling: Sublime and Sentimental Gambling

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 86 –110

[As a group of gentlemen discuss fashionable masculine pastimes in Frances Burney’s third novel, Camilla (1796), an Irishman named Macdersey defends himself against their assumption that because he has expressed superlative passions for women, wine, and hunting (declaring each is “the first...
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The Lady’s Last Stake: Camilla and the Female Gambler

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 111 –126

[While I argued in Chapter 3 that the participation of Frances Burney’s eponymous heroine Cecilia in private credit relationships was structurally similar to the sublime gambling of her guardian Harrel, I also noted briefly that her participation in the economy was circumscribed by her gender,...
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Children’s Games “Abroad and at Home”: Belinda, Education, and Empire

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 127 –145

[Since gambling both inspired the credit economy and was ubiquitous as a leisure activity in everyday culture in eighteenth-century England, it played an important role in the thinking of educational theorists. What was the impact of the gambling culture on children? What kinds of games should...
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The Confidence Man: Persuasion and the Romance of Risk

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 146 –168

[As an astute reader of eighteenth-century novels who from at least age 13 was dissecting fictional conventions with aplomb in her own experimental writing, Jane Austen digests and transforms the romance of gambling in the eighteenth-century novel. Austen gestures to the history of gamblers in...
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Afterword: The Eighteenth-Century Risk Society

Richard, Jessica

Pages: 169 –171

[In a New York Times op-ed essay published in 2008, the pundit David Brooks bemoans a supposed “deterioration of financial mores” in the United States that he feels betrays the “moral structure” of financial restraint built by the Puritans and Benjamin Franklin. Brooks blames this seeming decline...

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