Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies
A Cultural History of European Lotteries
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Date of Publication 4 December 2025
- ISBN 9783111445496
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages463 pages
- Size 230x155 mm
- Weight 783 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black & white; 5 Tables, black & white 659
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Long description:
The volume explores the ways in which the lottery was imagined in early modern and long eighteenth-century Europe. It presents a series of interconnected case studies from Denmark-Norway, the German-speaking areas, Britain, the Low Countries, France, Italy, and Spain, which bring into dialogue a wide range of materials: lottery tickets and advertisements, pamphlets and periodicals, visual art, popular songs, poetry, prose fiction and plays, political, moral, and judicial treatises.
This material suggests how lotteries were perceived as inviting fantasies, dreams, and daydreams; as engendering folly, superstition, and compulsive playing; as leading to social misery, bankruptcy, and suicide; as betraying questions of risk, trust, and fairness; and as being deeply embedded in the political and fi nancial development of an emerging modernity.
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