Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone /

Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone / / Joseph Meisel.

By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This book argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrumentality of public speec...

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Meisel, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Schools for Public Speaking
  • 2. The House of Commons
  • 3. Religion
  • Law
  • The Platform
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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