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
Select bibliography
Index
| ISBN: | 9780729403269 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1985 |
| Author: | John Dunkley, Voltaire Foundation |
| Publisher: | Voltaire Foundation |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 243 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century |
| Genres: |
Popular culture |