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Imagining Trust and Justice – The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694 – 1826
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James Raven
James Raven is a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and formerly Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, he is the author and editor of many books and articles in British, European, and colonial cultural history, includingWhat is the History of the Book? (Polity, 2018) andGlobal Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Boydell Press, 2024).
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- A Cultural History of European Lotteries – Introductory Essay 1
- Criticising the Lottery in Its Cradle – The Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century 37
- Imagining Trust and Justice – The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694 – 1826 65
- The Failed Promise and the Success of the Spanish Lottery 97
- The Ambivalent Perceptions of the Genoese Lotto and the Idea of the Magic Circle in the Italian Literary Discourse of the Eighteenth Century 125
- Staging Lotteries in the Age of the Loterie de France (1776 – 1836) 153
- The Political, Socio-Economic, and Cultural Impact of Lotteries on Dutch Society (1700 – 1850) 183
- Innovation, Temptation, and Mathematical Education – The Dano-Norwegian Lotto and the Struggle for Opinion 211
- “If I Had the Great Prize…” – Lottery Fantasies in Lottery Rhymes from the Early Modern Low Countries 247
- Selling Like a State? Lottery Advertising, Commercial Rivalries, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Germany 273
- Lottery Advertisements and Comedies in Late Georgian England 313
- Jackpot! Turning the Lottery Fantasy into a Societal Critique – Le Gros lot by Hector Chaussier 337
- The Lottery in British Prose Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century 359
- Lottery Dreams in Dano-Norwegian Skilling Ballads 389
- “Plus de loterie!” – Cultural Responses to the Abolition of the French State Lottery 419
- Name Index
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- A Cultural History of European Lotteries – Introductory Essay 1
- Criticising the Lottery in Its Cradle – The Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century 37
- Imagining Trust and Justice – The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694 – 1826 65
- The Failed Promise and the Success of the Spanish Lottery 97
- The Ambivalent Perceptions of the Genoese Lotto and the Idea of the Magic Circle in the Italian Literary Discourse of the Eighteenth Century 125
- Staging Lotteries in the Age of the Loterie de France (1776 – 1836) 153
- The Political, Socio-Economic, and Cultural Impact of Lotteries on Dutch Society (1700 – 1850) 183
- Innovation, Temptation, and Mathematical Education – The Dano-Norwegian Lotto and the Struggle for Opinion 211
- “If I Had the Great Prize…” – Lottery Fantasies in Lottery Rhymes from the Early Modern Low Countries 247
- Selling Like a State? Lottery Advertising, Commercial Rivalries, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Germany 273
- Lottery Advertisements and Comedies in Late Georgian England 313
- Jackpot! Turning the Lottery Fantasy into a Societal Critique – Le Gros lot by Hector Chaussier 337
- The Lottery in British Prose Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century 359
- Lottery Dreams in Dano-Norwegian Skilling Ballads 389
- “Plus de loterie!” – Cultural Responses to the Abolition of the French State Lottery 419
- Name Index
