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Dialogue, didacticism and the genres of dispute : literary dialogues in an age of revolution

Title
Dialogue, didacticism and the genres of dispute : literary dialogues in an age of revolution / by Adrian J. Wallbank.
Author
Wallbank, Adrian J.
Publication
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

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Description
x, 287 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Enlightenment world : political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century ; no. 25
Uniform Title
Enlightenment world ; no. 25.
Subject
  • 1700-1899
  • 1700-talet
  • 1800-talet
  • Dialogue in literature
  • Direct discourse in literature
  • Dialogues, English > History and criticism
  • Didactic literature, English > History and criticism
  • Persuasion (Rhetoric)
  • Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Dialogue in literature
  • Dialogues, English
  • Didactic literature, English
  • Direct discourse in literature
  • English literature
  • Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature
  • Romanticism
  • Dialog
  • Beeinflussung
  • Dialoger (litteratur)
  • Övertalning i litteraturen
  • Romantiken
  • Engelsk litteratur > historia
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index.
Contents
1. Loyalist and radical dialogues of the revolution controversy : the 'ambiguities' of 'popular address' -- 2. 'I am like that house or kingdom divided against itself, of which I have read somewhere in the Holy Scriptures' : psychological disunity, mentoring from the heart, and literary innovation : evangelical dialogues, 1795-1801 -- 3. Religious 'enthusiasm' and 'practical' mentoring : dialogic responses to the Blagdon controversy -- 4. Education and philosophical persuasion : the dialogues of Dr. Alexander Thomson and Sir Uvedale Price -- 5. 'Interrogative' philosophizing and the ambiguities of egalitarian dialogues : Sir Richard Phillips's Four dialogues between an Oxford tutor and a disciple of the common-sense philosophy (1824) and Robert Southey's Sir Thomas More : colloquies on the progress and prospects of society (1829) -- 6. Conversation and 'enlightened philosophy' : the 'dialectical comedies' of Thomas Love Peacock and Imaginary conversations (1824-9) of Walter Savage Landor.
ISBN
  • 9781848932791
  • 1848932790
  • 9781848932807
  • 1848932804
OCLC
  • ocn758984500
  • 758984500
  • SCSB-14510395
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library