Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies
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Edited by:
Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen
About this book
The volume explores the way 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, visual art, prose fiction and plays, political, moral, and judicial treatises.
This material suggests how early-modern and long-eighteenth-century 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 financial 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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