Gambling : a social and moral problem in France, 1685-1792
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Gambling : a social and moral problem in France, 1685-1792
(Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century / edited by Theodore Besterman, 235)
Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1985
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 1975)
Bibliography: p. [227]-235
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Preface
Introduction
1. The extent of the problem
2. Gambling and the law
3. The early moralists and the emergence of agreement, 1685-1714
4. Two disputes: Natural Law and theology
5. The later moralists, 1715-1792
6. Moralising through dramatic literature
7. Gambling in the novel
Conclusion
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Index
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