Darryl P Domingo

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

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781316509456
• ISBN-10: 1316509451
• Artikelnr.: 54642255

Autorenporträt

Darryl P. Domingo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on the often subtle ways in which eighteenth-century cultural phenomena - such as urbanization, entertainment and advertising - both represent and are represented by the devices of literary texts. Darryl has published essays in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and The Review of English Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

'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.