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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 ; London : University of Toronto Press, c2009.Description: viii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780802098030 :
  • 0802098037 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9145 22
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: Staëll, Byron, and the foreignizing effect of cultural translation / Joshua Lambier -- Captain Barclay's performance: decoding pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century Britain / Thomas C. Crochunis.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) 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: Staëll, Byron, and the foreignizing effect of cultural translation / Joshua Lambier -- Captain Barclay's performance: decoding pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century Britain / Thomas C. Crochunis.

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