Spheres of Action : : Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture / / Angela Esterhammer, Alexander Dick.
With contributions from leading Romanticist scholars who draw on literary history, performance studies, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period. These essays consider cultural phen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Romantic Spheres of Action / Esterhammer, Angela / Dick, Alexander
- PART 1. Public Speaking
- 1. Re-sounding Romanticism: John Thelwall and the Science and Practice of Elocution / Thompson, Judith
- 2. Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act / Zimmerman, Sarah M.
- 3. Wordsworth's Lament / Dick, Alexander
- 4. Blasphemy Trials and The Cenci: Parody as Performative / Myers, Victoria
- 5. A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Romanticism, and the Tragedy of Human Origin / Oort, Richard Van
- PART 2. Body Language
- 6. Telling Lies with Body Language / Burwick, Frederick
- 7. Cross-Dressing and the Performance of Gender in Romantic-Period Comic Plays by Women / Purinton, Marjean D.
- 8. Fox's Tears: The Staging of Liquid Politics / O'Quinn, Daniel
- 9. Citational Cosmopolitics: Staël, Byron, and the Foreignizing Effect of Cultural Translation / Lambier, Joshua
- 10. Captain Barclay's Performance: Decoding Pedestrianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain / Crochunis, Thomas C.
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index