Michael Flavin is the author of Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel: A Leprosy is o'er the Land'. He has lectured at Canterbury Christ Church University College (19992001). He is currently Head of English at Rochester Independent College and lectures in nineteenth-century literature at the Open University.

In this clear and informative study, social history meets Literary Criticism & Linguistics in a concise and useful form. Recommended. -- ChoiceDr Flavins meticulous study of gambling in its various forms in Victorian fiction ranges from the novel to literary biography, social history, politics and popular science. Opening new and intriguing perspectives on the subject, Flavin reveals gambling and chance as the dark alternatives to progressive evolution in the consciousness of the age. -- Louis James, Emeritus Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury

Michael Flavin is the author of Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel: A Leprosy is o'er the Land'. He has lectured at Canterbury Christ Church University College (19992001). He is currently Head of English at Rochester Independent College and lectures in nineteenth-century literature at the Open University.

In this clear and informative study, social history meets Literary Criticism & Linguistics in a concise and useful form. Recommended. -- ChoiceDr Flavins meticulous study of gambling in its various forms in Victorian fiction ranges from the novel to literary biography, social history, politics and popular science. Opening new and intriguing perspectives on the subject, Flavin reveals gambling and chance as the dark alternatives to progressive evolution in the consciousness of the age. -- Louis James, Emeritus Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury

Michael Flavin is the author of Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel: A Leprosy is o'er the Land'. He has lectured at Canterbury Christ Church University College (19992001). He is currently Head of English at Rochester Independent College and lectures in nineteenth-century literature at the Open University.

In this clear and informative study, social history meets Literary Criticism & Linguistics in a concise and useful form. Recommended. -- ChoiceDr Flavins meticulous study of gambling in its various forms in Victorian fiction ranges from the novel to literary biography, social history, politics and popular science. Opening new and intriguing perspectives on the subject, Flavin reveals gambling and chance as the dark alternatives to progressive evolution in the consciousness of the age. -- Louis James, Emeritus Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury