Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies
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Edited by:
Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen and Marius Warholm Haugen, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Angela Fabris, Department of Romance Studies, Klagenfurt University, Austria.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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A Cultural History of European Lotteries – Introductory Essay
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Criticising the Lottery in Its Cradle – The Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century
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Imagining Trust and Justice – The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694 – 1826
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The Failed Promise and the Success of the Spanish Lottery
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The Ambivalent Perceptions of the Genoese Lotto and the Idea of the Magic Circle in the Italian Literary Discourse of the Eighteenth Century
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Staging Lotteries in the Age of the Loterie de France (1776 – 1836)
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The Political, Socio-Economic, and Cultural Impact of Lotteries on Dutch Society (1700 – 1850)
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Innovation, Temptation, and Mathematical Education – The Dano-Norwegian Lotto and the Struggle for Opinion
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“If I Had the Great Prize…” – Lottery Fantasies in Lottery Rhymes from the Early Modern Low Countries
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Selling Like a State? Lottery Advertising, Commercial Rivalries, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Germany
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Lottery Advertisements and Comedies in Late Georgian England
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Jackpot! Turning the Lottery Fantasy into a Societal Critique – Le Gros lot by Hector Chaussier
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The Lottery in British Prose Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
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Lottery Dreams in Dano-Norwegian Skilling Ballads
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“Plus de loterie!” – Cultural Responses to the Abolition of the French State Lottery
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