{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-diversion-in-english-literature-and-culture-16901760-9781107146273","title":"The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture 16901760","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186715943255,"sku":"9781107146273","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rhetoric-of-diversion-in-english-literature-and-culture-16901760-9781107146273","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}