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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9781107425583 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823.509 |
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MOL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Molesworth, Jesse |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Chance and the eighteenth-century novel : realism, probability, magic |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2014 |
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Cambridge : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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x, 275 p. ; |
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ill., |
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23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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34.99 |
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GBP |
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100.50 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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The rise and popular awareness of the science of probability in the eighteenth century was accompanied by an equally great interest in the anti-probable: lotteries, tarot readings, and gambling. In this original study, Jesse Molesworth analyses the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction. In a variety of readings, both literary and cultural, he investigates works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, in the context of the rise of lottery addiction, Hoyle's whist, and tarot cartomancy. Both a reassessment of the early development of the novel and a contribution to recent work on realism and fiction, this book suggests connections between narrative and mathematics that reveal a darker, more transgressive, side to the novel. Rather than a rational expression of Enlightenment truths, the novel reaches out to older, more superstitious views as it tries to combine the attractions of chance with the consolations of reason. |
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Chance in literature |
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English fiction |
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Magic in literature |
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Realism in literature |
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Accident |
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Coincidence |
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Egocentric bias |
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Fortune |
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Gambling |
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Lottery |
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Probability |
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Superstition |
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Tarrot reading |
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Daniel Defoe |
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Henry Fielding |
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Books |