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"Unbending the mind": introduction by way of diversion
"The predominant taste of the present age": diversion and the literary market
"Pleas'd at being so agreeably deceiv'd": pantomime and the poetics of dumb wit
"Fasten'd by the eyes": popular wonder, print culture, and the exhibition of monstrosity
"Pleasantry for thy entertainment": novelistic discourse and the rhetoric of diversion
"The soul of reading": Conclusion by way of animadversion.
"The predominant taste of the present age": diversion and the literary market
"Pleas'd at being so agreeably deceiv'd": pantomime and the poetics of dumb wit
"Fasten'd by the eyes": popular wonder, print culture, and the exhibition of monstrosity
"Pleasantry for thy entertainment": novelistic discourse and the rhetoric of diversion
"The soul of reading": Conclusion by way of animadversion.