
The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1760.
Domingo, Darryl P.
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 8:o. xiij, 305 pp. Illustrated. Publishers black cloth, gilt spine and illustrated dust jacket. As new. Some underlinings and notes in the outer margins occurs, else as new.
200 kr
First edition. Contents: ‘Unbedning the mind’: introduction by way of diversion; ‘The predominant taste of the present age’: diversion and the literary market; ‘Pleas’d at beaing so agreeably deceiv’d’: pantomime and the poetics of dumb wit; ‘Fasten’d by thhe eyes’: popular wonder, print culture, and the exhibition of monstrosity; ‘Pleasantry for the entertainment’: novelistic discourse and the rhetoric of diversion; ‘The soul of reading’: conclusion by way of animadversion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.



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