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