Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France |
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| Author:
| Kavanagh, Thomas M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-4549-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1993 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $44.00 |
Book Description:
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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."--Josue V. Harari, Emory University.
"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."--Josue V. Harari, Emory University.