Gambling in the nineteenth-century English novel

"Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels, including works by Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. By examining the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists, the work highlights the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society."--Jacket.