Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel : Realism, Probability, Magic
ISBN: 9780521191081 | 0521191084
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/23/2010
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A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance - including gambling and magic - in eighteenth-century fiction, from Defoe through Fielding to end-of-century Gothic.
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. I... MORE
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. I... MORE
| Introduction: can the novel enlighten? | |
| Chance, Plot, Magic: | |
| Fortune's fools: the novel and the lottery fantasy | |
| Two predictions on the fate of gambling and probability theory | |
| Epistemologies of the Eighteenth-Century Novel: | |
| Defoe and the statistical (il)logic of the novel | |
| Narrative games in the novels of Henry Fielding | |
| Humean fictions: Amelia, Tristram ... MORE | |
| The Return of Coincidence: | |
| Natural preternaturalism: the Gothic novel and the rise of Tarot cartomancy | |
| Coda: Sade and the supermundane realm | |
| Works cited | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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