Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies
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- ISBN 9783111445496
- Weight: 783g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 2025
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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The volume explores the ways 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, pamphlets and periodicals, visual art, popular songs, poetry, prose fiction and plays, political, moral, and judicial treatises.
This material suggests how 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 fi nancial development of an emerging modernity.
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.
