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• catalog abstract "While Montesquieu was praising indifference to financial gain, Louis XV regularly presided over dizzying gambling games at Versailles. While Descartes was advancing a strategy for escaping from chance by appealing to the protocols of certainty, clandestine gambling operations in Paris numbered in the hundreds. Despite efforts by the major figures of the French Enlightenment to suppress the period's fascination with chance, high-stakes gambling was an integral part of the social rituals of the most influential groups within the ancien regime. In Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance, Thomas Kavanagh explores this important paradox to shed light on the genesis, development, and function of the eighteenth-century French novel. First considering the roles of chance and gambling in the epistemological, social, and economic histories of the period, Kavanagh shows that doctrines of chance played a denied yet operative role in important aspects of what the French Enlightenment proclaimed itself to be. He then looks at representations of chance in the novels of Prechac, Prevost, Voltaire, Denon, Crebillon, and Diderot, and shows how they tell two stories: that of a deterministic and ordered universe, and that of a world of fortuitous events determined only by chance. It was the tension and interplay between these two poles, Kavanagh argues, that contributed in an important way to the development of the Enlightenment's ideal of the rational man.".
• catalog contributor b4106322.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "In Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance, Thomas Kavanagh explores this important paradox to shed light on the genesis, development, and function of the eighteenth-century French novel. First considering the roles of chance and gambling in the epistemological, social, and economic histories of the period, Kavanagh shows that doctrines of chance played a denied yet operative role in important aspects of what the French Enlightenment proclaimed itself to be. He then looks at representations of chance in the novels of Prechac, Prevost, Voltaire, Denon, Crebillon, and Diderot, and shows how they tell two stories: that of a deterministic and ordered universe, and that of a world of fortuitous events determined only by chance. It was the tension and interplay between these two poles, Kavanagh argues, that contributed in an important way to the development of the Enlightenment's ideal of the rational man.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263) and index.".
• catalog description "While Montesquieu was praising indifference to financial gain, Louis XV regularly presided over dizzying gambling games at Versailles. While Descartes was advancing a strategy for escaping from chance by appealing to the protocols of certainty, clandestine gambling operations in Paris numbered in the hundreds. Despite efforts by the major figures of the French Enlightenment to suppress the period's fascination with chance, high-stakes gambling was an integral part of the social rituals of the most influential groups within the ancien regime.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Chance and the Culture of Enlightenment. 1. The Triumph of Probability Theory. 2. Gambling as Social Practice. 3. Law's System and the Gamble Refused -- pt. 2. Chance and the Novel. 4. Toward a Novel of Experience. 5. Jean de Prechac and the Noble's Wager. 6. Chance, Reading, and the Tragedy of Experience: Prevost's Manon Lescaut. 7. The Ironies of Chance: Voltaire's Candide and Zadig. 8. Writing of No Consequence: Vivant Denon's Point de lendemain. 9. The Moment's Notice: Crebillon's Game of Libertinage. 10. Chance's Untellable Tale: Diderot's Jacques le fataliste.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 271 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Enlightenment and the shadows of chance.".
• catalog identifier "0801845491".
• catalog isFormatOf "Enlightenment and the shadows of chance.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Enlightenment and the shadows of chance.".
• catalog spatial "France".
• catalog spatial "France.".
• catalog subject "843/.509355 20".
• catalog subject "Chance in literature.".
• catalog subject "Enlightenment France.".
• catalog subject "French fiction 18th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Gambling in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society France History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "PQ648 .K38 1993".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Chance and the Culture of Enlightenment. 1. The Triumph of Probability Theory. 2. Gambling as Social Practice. 3. Law's System and the Gamble Refused -- pt. 2. Chance and the Novel. 4. Toward a Novel of Experience. 5. Jean de Prechac and the Noble's Wager. 6. Chance, Reading, and the Tragedy of Experience: Prevost's Manon Lescaut. 7. The Ironies of Chance: Voltaire's Candide and Zadig. 8. Writing of No Consequence: Vivant Denon's Point de lendemain. 9. The Moment's Notice: Crebillon's Game of Libertinage. 10. Chance's Untellable Tale: Diderot's Jacques le fataliste.".
• catalog title "Enlightenment and the shadows of chance : the novel and the culture of gambling in eighteenth-century France / Thomas M. Kavanagh.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".