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

"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

"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."--Josué V. Harari, Emory University.