The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760

Darryl P. (University of Memphis) Domingo

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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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.

ISBN-13
9781316509456
ISBN-10
1316509451
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-12-20
Pages
320
Dimensions
227x153x20
Weight
474