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The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1760
Darryl P. Domingo
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hardcover. A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 in the commercialization of leisure in England, and the coincidental coming of age of literary self-consciousness in works published between approximately 1690 and 1760. During this period, commercial entertainers tested out new ways of gratifying a public increasingly eager for amusement, while professional writers explored the rhetorical possibilities of intrusion, obstruction, and interruption through their characteristic use ... Read more
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 in the commercialization of leisure in England, and the coincidental coming of age of literary self-consciousness in works published between approximately 1690 and 1760. During this period, commercial entertainers tested out new ways of gratifying a public increasingly eager for amusement, while professional writers explored the rhetorical possibilities of intrusion, obstruction, and interruption through their characteristic use ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107146273
SKU
V9781107146273
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About Darryl P. Domingo
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 ... Read more
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