Format:
1 online resource (315 pages)
ISBN:
9781442689183
Content:
Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Romantic Spheres of Action -- PART 1: PUBLIC SPEAKING -- 1 Re-sounding Romanticism: John Thelwall and the Science and Practice of Elocution -- 2 Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act -- 3 Wordsworth's Lament -- 4 Blasphemy Trials and The Cenci: Parody as Performative -- 5 A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Romanticism, and the Tragedy of Human Origin -- PART 2: BODY LANGUAGE -- 6 Telling Lies with Body Language -- 7 Cross-Dressing and the Performance of Gender in Romantic-Period Comic Plays by Women -- 8 Fox's Tears: The Staging of Liquid Politics -- 9 Citational Cosmopolitics: Staël, Byron, and the Foreignizing Effect of Cultural Translation -- 10 Captain Barclay's Performance: Decoding Pedestrianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802098030
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spheres of action Toronto [u.a.] : Univ. of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN 9780802098030
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Rhetorik
;
Aufführung
;
Geschichte 1790-1830
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Romantik
;
Rhetorik
;
Aufführung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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