The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 169

The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture 16901760\nby Darryl P. Domingo\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Darryl P. Domingo\nTitle: The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture 16901760\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781107146273\nISBN-10: 1107146275\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Chapters explore a range of diversionary preoccupations and argue that the devices of digressive wit adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in eighteenth-century culture.\n\nA study of how litera.