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A sequence of satirical social sketches centers on a fashionable seaside resort, tracing visitors’ daily routines from bathing and breakfast to promenades on the Steyne, library gatherings, and evening assemblies. Descriptive topography and local anecdotes alternate with scenes of conversation, dispute, and exhibition—military spectacles, public harangues, and quarrels among an egotistical author and his interlocutors. Portraits of idleness, toylike commerce, and gambling set against routines of exercise and refreshment produce a critique of leisure culture and literary pretension, delivered through journallike hours, comic episodes, and pointed commentary on manners and occupations.

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Title: Modern literature: a novel, Volume 2 (of 3)

Author: Robert Bisset

Release date: September 5, 2022 [eBook #68916]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804

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Transcriber’s note

Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book.


MODERN LITERATURE:
A NOVEL,
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.