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The art of eloquence : Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce

Title: The art of eloquence : Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce / Matthew Bevis.
Author: Bevis, Matthew.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description

302 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they and their publics conceived the relations between political speech and literary endeavour. Drawing on a wide range of sources - classical rhetoric, Hansard, newspaper reports, elocutionary manuals, treatises on crowd theory - this book argues that oratorical procedures and languages were formative influences on literary culture from Romanticism to Modernism."--Jacket

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-291) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Literary persuasions -- Disinterested parties -- Debating societies -- Byron's hearing -- Question, question -- Forms of address -- The eloquence of action -- Poetic justice -- On second thoughts -- An audience with Dickens -- Addressing the times -- Plotting talk -- Honourable gentlemen -- Bringing the house down -- Tennyson and sound judgement -- Measured language -- Testing voices -- A civil tongue -- The tone of empire -- Joyce's breathing space -- Governing the tongue -- Crowd trouble -- Stephen's heroes -- House rules -- Coda: An eyed ear.

ISBN

9780199253999
0199253994
9780191719790
019171979X

LCCN

2007012565
9780199253999
99818397608

OCLC

ocn122261747
122261747
SCSB-14503861

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Princeton University Library