Title: The rhetoric of diversion in English literature and culture, 1690-1760 /
Authors: Domingo, Darryl P.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Recreation in literature.; Recreation Great Britain History; English literature; Recreation; Recreation in literature.; Great Britain
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.