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Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies
a cultural history of European lotteries
1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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...
Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, Marius Warholm Haugen, and Angela Fabris -- A Cultural History of European Lotteries -- Introductory Essay -- 1 A brief history of European lotteries -- 2 Lottery schemes explained -- 3 Lotteries and the cultural imagination -- 4 A transnational and transmedial history -- Bibliography -- Jeroen Puttevils -- Criticising the Lottery in Its Cradle -- The Low Countries in the Long Sixteenth Century -- 1 Necessity breeds innovation: the first lotteries in the fifteenth century
2 Outright justification and connivance in the first two thirds of the sixteenth century -- 3 The pros and cons of a state lottery in the second half of the sixteenth century -- 4 Late sixteenth-century humanist justifications and growing moral pressure against lotteries -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- James Raven -- Imagining Trust and Justice -- The Rise and Fall of the English State Lottery 1694-1826 -- 1 Trust and risk -- 2 Fairness -- 3 Corruption -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Michael Scham -- The Failed Promise and the Success of the Spanish Lottery
1 Early modern background and polemics surrounding play -- 2 Promises of economic benefit and social order -- 3 Recreation and economic speculation in the Enlightenment state -- 4 Lottery literature in eighteenth-century Spain: two satirical sainetes -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Angela Fabris -- The Ambivalent Perceptions of the Genoese Lotto and the Idea of the Magic Circle in the Italian Literary Discourse of the Eighteenth Century -- 1 Towards an anthropology in verse of the eighteenth-century lottery player
2 Female figures between pseudo-rationality, kabbalah, and dream interpretation -- 3 Numerical and alphabetical lottos between literary play, truth, and fiction -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Marius Warholm Haugen -- Staging Lotteries in the Age of the Loterie de France (1776-1836) -- 1 Categorising lottery comedies -- 2 Satire and institutional critique in the lotto comedy -- 3 The lotto comedy as economic fiction -- 4 Negotiating value: the marital lottery comedy as economic fiction -- 5 For ten écus to become a prince: the property lottery comedy as economic fiction -- 6 Conclusion
edited by Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, Marius Warholm Haugen, Angela Fabris.
1 Promoting the lotto: innovation, agency, and flexibility
Bibliography -- Jeroen Salman -- The Political, Socio-Economic, and Cultural Impact of Lotteries on Dutch Society (1700-1850) -- 1 Central power and regional autonomy -- 1.1 Establishing the state lottery -- 1.2 Local and provincial lotteries -- 2 Lottery discourses -- 2.1 Social and economic benefits -- 2.2 Moral and social harm -- 2.3 Jews as scapegoats for the lottery's ills -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen -- Innovation, Temptation, and Mathematical Education - The Dano-Norwegian Lotto and the Struggle for Opinion
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social