Roger D. Lund

Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing for wit's importance beyond its use as a literary device, Lund traces the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He shows how fear of wit as a subversive rhetorical form threatening church and state resulted in attacks on heterodox writers, the Restoration stage and new communal venues such as coffee houses and clubs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317062974
• Artikelnr.: 44870908

Autorenporträt

Roger D. Lund is Professor of English at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. He is editor of The Margins of Orthodoxy (1995) and Gulliver's Travels: A Sourcebook (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Bite of Leviathan
Chapter 2 Libertine Wit and the Collier Stage Controversy
Chapter 3 The Titans of Wit
Chapter 4 Shaftesbury and the Gentility of Wit
Chapter 5 The Trammels of Christian Wit
Chapter 6 The Hermeneutics of Censorship and the Crime of Wit