Enlightenment and the shadows of chance : the novel and the culture of gambling in eighteenth-century France / Thomas M. Kavanagh
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426345
ISBN: 0801845491
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.
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