Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

by RogerD.Lund (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $171.53

  Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, the author outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing.