The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts

"For almost the first time in Mr Battestin's book religion has its full innings in the reinterpretation of eighteenth-century literature. Perhaps his greatest contribution is his recovery of a number of divines and their writings and his employment of them as an intellectual rather than a merely antiquarian resource"" - Paul Fussell,
For almost the first time in Mr Battestin's book religion has its full innings in the reinterpretation of eighteenth-century literature ... Perhaps his greatest contribution is his recovery of a number of divines and their writings and his employment of them as an intellectual rather than a merely antiquarian resource"" - Paul Fussell,