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How Long Does it Take to Read Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England by Professor Roger D Lund

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Description

Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund 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 and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately used to undermine the judgment of individuals and to destabilize established institutions of church and state. Beginning with a discussion of wit's association with deception, Lund suggests that suspicion of wit and the imagination emerges in attacks on the Restoration stage, in the persecution of The Craftsman, and in criticism directed at Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and works by writers like the Earl of Shaftesbury, Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Paine. Anxieties about wit, Lund shows, were in part responsible for attempts to suppress new communal venues such as coffee houses and clubs and for the Church's condemnation of the seditious pamphlets made possible by the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Finally, the establishment's conviction that wit, ridicule, satire, and innuendo are subversive rhetorical forms is glaringly at play in attempts to use libel trials to translate the fear of wit as a metaphorical transgression of public decorum into an actual violation of the civil code.

How long is Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England?

Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England by Professor Roger D Lund is 262 pages long, and a total of 66,024 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours to read Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England aloud.

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Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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