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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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