“Sorting out a Pack of Cards”: Gambling, Card-Playing and Figuring Credit and Social Identity in Georgian England

In the eighteenth century, gambling was the object of many moralising discourses, in essays, plays, newspaper publications and novels, as well as in the visual arts, denouncing the potentially fatal consequences of such an addiction on family fortunes. Gambling also served as a metaphor to describe...

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Main Author: Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2021-05-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/11620
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