TY - BOOK AU - Esterhammer,Angela AU - Dick,Alexander J. TI - Spheres of action: speech and performance in Romantic culture SN - 9781442689183 AV - PR457 .S64 2008eb U1 - 820.9/145 PY - 2009/// CY - Toronto [Ont.] PB - University of Toronto Press KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Language and languages in literature KW - Romanticism KW - Great Britain KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Performative (Philosophy) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS KW - Essays KW - fast KW - Littérature anglaise KW - 18e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - 19e siècle KW - Langage et langues dans la littérature KW - Romantisme KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Actes de parole KW - Performatif (Philosophie) KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Re-sounding romanticism: John Thelwall and the science and practice of elocution / Judith Thompson -- Coleridge the lecturer, a disappearing act / Sarah M. Zimmerman -- Wordsworth's lament / Alexander Dick -- Blasphemy trials and the Cenci: parody as performative / Victoria Myers -- A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin / Richard Van Oort -- Telling lies with body language / Frederick Burwick -- Cross-dressing and the performance of gender in romantic-period comic plays by women / Marjean D. Purinton -- Fox's tears: the staging of liquid politics / Daniel O'Quinn -- Citational cosmoppolitics: Stae·ll, Byron, and the foreignizing effect of cultural translation / Joshua Lambier -- Captain Barclay's performance: decoding pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century Britain / Thomas C. Crochunis N2 - Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468917 ER -