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Book Title
Dice, Cards, Wheels
Publication Name
Dice, Cards, Wheels : a Different History of French Culture
Title
Dice, Cards, Wheels
Subtitle
A Different History of French Culture
Author
Thomas M. Kavanagh
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0812238605
EAN
9780812238600
ISBN
9780812238600
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Genre
History
Subject
European / French, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Customs & Traditions
Release Year
2005
Release Date
07/03/2005
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Length
9 in
Series
Critical Authors and Issues Ser.
Subject Area
Games & Activities, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Number of Pages
264 Pages

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Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels , Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or class. To gamble is to enter a world traced out by the rules and protocols of the game the gambler plays. That world may be an alternative to the established order, but the shape and structure of the game reveal indirectly hidden tensions, fears, and prohibitions. Drawing on literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Kavanagh reconstructs the figure of the gambler and his evolving personae. He examines, among other examples, Bodel's dicing in a twelfth-century tavern for the conversion of the Muslim world; Pascal's post-Reformation redefinition of salvation as the gambler's prize; the aristocratic libertine's celebration of the bluff; and Balzac's, Barbey d'Aurevilly's, and Bourget's nineteenth-century revisions of the gambler. Dice, Cards, Wheels embraces the tremendous breadth of French history and emerges as a broad-ranging study of the different forms of gambling, from the dice games of the Middle Ages to the digital slot machines of the twenty-first century, and what those games tell us about French culture and history.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812238605
ISBN-13
9780812238600
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43755626

Product Key Features

Author
Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publication Name
Dice, Cards, Wheels : a Different History of French Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
European / French, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2005
Series
Critical Authors and Issues Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Games & Activities, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2004-043118
Lc Classification Number
Hv6722.F8k38 2005
Reviews
"With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and ruses, of games and the culture that they shape, Kavanagh makes a convincing case that gambling ought to be considered not a moral failing or individual pathology but a conspicuous, and uncommonly revelatory, practice that sets the social scene that it dramatizes."--Journal of Modern History, With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and ruses, of games and the culture that they shape, Kavanagh makes a convincing case that gambling ought to be considered not a moral failing or individual pathology but a conspicuous, and uncommonly revelatory, practice that sets the social scene that it dramatizes., "With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and ruses, of games and the culture that they shape, Kavanagh makes a convincing case that gambling ought to be considered not a moral failing or individual pathology but a conspicuous, and uncommonly revelatory, practice that sets the social scene that it dramatizes."-- Journal of Modern History, "With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and ruses, of games and the culture that they shape, Kavanagh makes a convincing case that gambling ought to be considered not a moral failing or individual pathology but a conspicuous, and uncommonly revelatory, practice that sets the social scene that it dramatizes."- Journal of Modern History
Table of Content
Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Toward A Cultural History of Gambling Chapter 2: Dicing with the Saints: Jehan Bodel's Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas Chapter 3: Getting God's Edge: Pascal's Gambler as Paraclete Chapter 4: The Libertine's Bluff Chapter 5: Gambling High and Low: Casanova's Story of My Life Chapter 6: Staging the Gambler: Sex, Sentiment, and Family Values Chapter 7: Gambling on the Anvil of History: Honoré de Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin Chapter 8: Whist, or the Aristocracy of Mystery: Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Beneath the Cards in a Game of Whist" Chapter 9: Betting Against Your Self: Paul Bourget's "A Gambler" Chapter 10: Dreaming the Casino: Demy's Baie des anges and Melville's Bob le flambeur Conclusion Appendix: "A Gambler" by Paul Bourget Notes Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
795/.0944
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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