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  title info:
    title: Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies
    sub title: a cultural history of European lotteries
  name:
    name part: Kristiansen, Johanne Slettvoll.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Haugen, Marius Warholm.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fabris, Angela
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: 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...
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: edited by Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, Marius Warholm Haugen, Angela Fabris.
  note: 1 Promoting the lotto: innovation, agency, and flexibility
  note: 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
  subject:
    topic: Lotteries
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Loteries
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / General
  classification: HG6184
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies
    origin info:
      publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1552150917
  identifier: 9783111445540
  identifier: 3111445542
  identifier: 9783111445571
  identifier: 3111445577
  identifier: 9783111445496
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 251129
    record change date: 20260212200951.7
    record identifier: in00005687227
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng