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A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.

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'Unbending the mind': introduction by way of diversion; 1. 'The predominant taste of the present age': diversion and the literary market; 2. 'Pleas'd at being so agreeably deceiv'd': pantomime and the poetics of dumb wit; 3. 'Fasten'd by the eyes': popular wonder, print culture, and the exhibition of monstrosity; 4. 'Pleasantry for thy entertainment': novelistic discourse and the rhetoric of diversion; 'The soul of reading': conclusion by way of animadversion; Notes; Bibliography.

The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture 16901760

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9781107146273, 978-1107146273
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.

      Table of Contents
      'Unbending the mind': introduction by way of diversion; 1. 'The predominant taste of the present age': diversion and the literary market; 2. 'Pleas'd at being so agreeably deceiv'd': pantomime and the poetics of dumb wit; 3. 'Fasten'd by the eyes': popular wonder, print culture, and the exhibition of monstrosity; 4. 'Pleasantry for thy entertainment': novelistic discourse and the rhetoric of diversion; 'The soul of reading': conclusion by way of animadversion; Notes; Bibliography.

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