Modern Luck
Narratives of fortune in the long twentieth century
Robert S. C. Gordon
Robert S. C. Gordon teaches in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.
Preface
PART I
1 Something
old, something new
2 Word
trees and etymologies
PART II
3 Lucky
numbers
4 Lucky
places, lucky lines
5 The
luckiest man
6 Moral
luck and the survivor
7 Luck
and the low life
8 Early
style and child’s play
Afterword
References
Format: Open Access PDF
209 Pages
Copyright: © 2023
ISBN: 9781800083592
Publication: January 04, 2023
Series: Comparative Literature and Culture
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