How Long to Read Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760

How Long Does it Take to Read Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760?

It takes the average reader 13 hours and 22 minutes to read Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760 by Darryl P. Domingo

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My doctoral thesis is a study of amusement which makes an amusement out of study. Endeavouring to delight and instruct as well as "unbend" the mind, it describes the fascination of eighteenth-century writers with the "Reigning Diversions of the Town," while attempting to account for the enormous pleasure eighteenth-century readers seem to have taken in the literary representation of these diversions. As a noun diversion refers to any pastime, sport, or recreation that is engaged for the purposes of entertainment ( O.E.D. 4.b). As a derivative of the verb divert , however, diversion denotes a...

How long is Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760?

Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760 by Darryl P. Domingo is 778 pages long, and a total of 200,724 words.

This makes it 263% the length of the average book. It also has 245% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 16 minutes to read Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760 aloud.

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Unbending the Mind, Or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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