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

Why did eighteenth-century writers employ digression as a literary form of diversion, and how did their readers come to enjoy linguistic and textual devices that self-consciously disrupt the reading experience? Darryl P. Domingo answers these questions through an examination of the formative period...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Domingo, Darryl P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Temas:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Recreation in literature.
Recreation > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Loisirs dans la littérature.
Loisirs > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Recreation.
Kommerzialisierung
Unterhaltung
Englisch
Roman
Digression
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

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