Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755
Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755

Author: Anthony Pollock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-03-17

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135855919

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Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755, complicates our understanding of eighteenth-century English print culture by studying the journalistic work of women writers who have long been overlooked by scholars, and by re-interpreting texts by canonical male authors in the period as responses to these early feminist models of cultural authority.

The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760
The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760

Author: Darryl P. Domingo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107146275

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A 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.