Art of Eloquence Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce

Art of Eloquence Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce

AngličtinaEbook
Bevis, Matthew
OUP Oxford
EAN: 9780191615610
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'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). 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 culturefrom Romanticism to Modernism. Matthew Bevis focuses attention on how the four writers negotiated contending political demands in and through their work, and on how they sought to cultivate forms of literary detachment that could gain critical purchase on political arguments. Providing a close reading of the relations between printed words and public voices as well as a broader engagement with debates about the socio-political inflections of the aesthetic realm, this is a major study of how styles of writing can explore andembody forms of responsible political conduct.
EAN 9780191615610
ISBN 0191615617
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavateľ OUP Oxford
Dátum vydania 9. septembra 2010
Jazyk English
Krajina United Kingdom
Autori Bevis, Matthew