Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France

by Thomas M. Kavanagh

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801845491
• ISBN13: 9780801845499
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"