The rhetoric of diversion in English literature and culture, 1690-1760 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Domingo, Darryl P. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Recreation in literature. Recreation > Great Britain > History > 18th century. English literature. Recreation. Great Britain. 1700 - 1799 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

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