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Spheres of action : speech and performance in Romantic culture / edited by Alexander Dick and Angela Esterhammer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 2010)Description: 1 online resource (306 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442689183
  • 1442689188
  • 1442692693
  • 9781442692695
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spheres of action.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/145
LOC classification:
  • PR457 .S64 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.
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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.

Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.

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