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Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England
Hardcover
HumorLiterary CriticismGeneral World History
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ISBN10: 1409437795
ISBN13: 9781409437796
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 28 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781409437796
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 28 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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