Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

English

ISBN: 1409437809

EAN: 9781409437802

Category: Literary Criticism / Humor/Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh/Literary Criticism / General/

Publisher: Ashgate

Release Date: 04/01/2012

Synopsis: 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.

Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF

Pages: 258