Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 213
Pages: 213
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-17 - Publisher: Springer
Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteent
Language: en
Pages: 331
Pages: 331
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania'. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-13 - Publisher: Springer
What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This
Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-25 - Publisher: Springer
The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focus
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-13 - Publisher: Springer
Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well
