Gambling In The Nineteenth Century English Novel

Author : Michael Flavin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059999139

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Gambling in the Nineteenth-century English Novel by Michael Flavin Pdf

This book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves 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. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but it is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst. Then a shift took place in the perception of gambling, primarily as a result of economic encounters relating to the Industrial Revolution. Representations of gambling in novels of the period place the industrious middle class against both the wasteful rich and the idle poor.

Author : Michael Flavin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837641727

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Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel by Michael Flavin Pdf

This text explores the theme of gambling in a range of 19th-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels, the role that gambling played in the lives of the novelists, and gambling in the novels within the context of the development of Victorian society.

Author : Jonathan Taylor
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837641772

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Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature by Jonathan Taylor Pdf

Iinvestigates some of the ways in which Laplacian and, indeed, Newtonian models of observation and the universe are at once assimilated and complicated by Romantic and Victorian writers such as Carlyle, Burke, Abbott, Poe and Wordsworth. This book explains how some of these literary reimaginings look forward to more modern conceptions of science.

Author : Daniel Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009436113

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The Art of Uncertainty by Daniel Williams Pdf

Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.

Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018233986

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Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops by Ann Fabian Pdf

Author : Thomas Ruys Smith
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0807137367

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Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men by Thomas Ruys Smith Pdf

In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterways -- the riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, "dress with taste and elegance; carry gold chronometers in their pockets; and swear with the most genteel precision.... Every where throughout the valley, these mistletoe gentry are called by the original, if not altogether classic, cognomen of 'Black-legs.'" In Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men, Thomas Ruys Smith collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. Long an iconic figure in American myth and popular culture but, strangely, one that has never until now received a book-length treatment, the Mississippi River gambler was a favorite character throughout the nineteenth century -- one often rich with moral ambiguities that remain unresolved to this day. In the absorbing fictional and nonfictional accounts of high stakes and sudden reversals of fortune found in the pages of Smith's book, the voices of canonized writers such as William Dean Howells, Herman Melville, and, of course, Mark Twain hold prominent positions. But they mingle seamlessly with lesser-known pieces such as an excerpt from Edward Willett's sensationalistic dime novel Flush Fred's Full Hand, raucous sketches by anonymous Old Southwestern humorists from the Spirit of the Times, and colorful accounts by now nearly forgotten authors such as Daniel R. Hundley and George W. Featherstonhaugh. Smith puts the twenty-eight selections in perspective with an Introduction that thoroughly explores the history and myth surrounding this endlessly fascinating American cultural icon. While the riverboat gambler may no longer ply his trade along the Mississippi, Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men makes clear the ways in which he still operates quite successfully in the American imagination.

Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472525567

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Vice and the Victorians by Mike Huggins Pdf

Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society.

Author : Martin Middeke,Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110394214

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Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 by Martin Middeke,Monika Pietrzak-Franger Pdf

Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.

Author : M. O'Cinneide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230583320

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Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867 by M. O'Cinneide Pdf

Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488445

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The Mysteries of the Cities by Stephen Knight Pdf

A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and to America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, Paul Feval, George Lippard, "Ned Buntline" and Donald Cameron.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780198705031

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The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope Pdf

First published by Oxford University Press 1941 in two volumes; first issued as a World's Classics paperback 1982.

Author : Margaret Linley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317098652

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Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Linley Pdf

Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.

Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136685576

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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops by Ann Fabian Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jim Orford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0470973064

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An Unsafe Bet? by Jim Orford Pdf

An Unsafe Bet? The Dangerous Rise of Gambling and the Debate We Should Be Having reveals how gambling represents a danger to public health due to its inherent addiction potential, which is being intentionally downplayed by the gambling industry and governments. Lays bare the extent of gambling and its effects on society Exposes the dilemma for policy makers, who are charged with protecting public health but also increasingly dependent on revenues earned from gambling Written by Jim Orford, an internationally respected authority on the topic International examples broaden the argument and reveal the global stakes involved

Author : Jessica Richard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230307278

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The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Jessica Richard Pdf

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.