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Arguments of Augustan wit /

(Number (ISBN

0511553544

(Number (ISBN

9780511553547

Erroneous ISBN

0521044553

Erroneous ISBN

0521411203

Erroneous ISBN

0521411203

Erroneous ISBN

9780521044554

Erroneous ISBN

9780521411202

Erroneous ISBN

9780521411202

Number

b738203

Title Proper

Arguments of Augustan wit /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

John Sitter.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1991.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;

Volume Designation

11

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Machine derived contents note: 1. The character progress as an Augustan phenomenon; 2. About wit: Locke, Jakobson, and Augustan ideas; 3. On the matter of wit; 4. Gravity, abstraction, and crackpot materialism; 5. That satire is art only more so.

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Text of Note

Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterised by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit. The arguments of Augustan wit reveal preoccupations with the metaphorical dimension of language so distrusted by Locke and others who saw it as fundamentally opposed to the rational mode of judgement. John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, Gay, Pope and Swift, as an analytic mode as well as one of stylistic sophistication. He argues that wit - often regarded by modern critics as a quaint category of verbal cleverness - in fact offers to current literary theory a legacy corrective of Romantic and neo-Romantic idealizations of imagination. This study aims at once to emphasise the historical specificity of Augustan writing, and to bring its arguments into dialogue with those of our time.--Publisher description.

Title

Arguments of Augustan wit.

International Standard Book Number

0521411203

Title

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.

English literature-- Roman influences.

English wit and humor-- History and criticism.

English literature-- Early modern.

English literature-- Roman influences.

English literature.

English wit and humor.

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Edition

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System Code

Sitter, John E.

Date of Transaction

20201203232222.0

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