Spheres of Action Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture 1st Edition by Alexander Dick, Angela Esterhammer 1442689188 9781442689183

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ISBN 10: 1442689188 

ISBN 13: 9781442689183

Author: Alexander Dick, Angela Esterhammer

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 phenomena such as elocution and political oratory, newspaper journalism, public mourning, the function of gesture and clothing in theatre – even a long-distance walking contest. They examine the problematic relationships among action, agency, and language in a variety of cultural institutions and media from the era.

Exploring aspects of public speaking and body language, these essays propose that understanding the culture and institutions of the Romantic period requires nuanced approaches to performance and agency. The collection also studies the ways in which the Romantics discovered both the potency and limitations of performativity.

Presenting a boldly multifaceted portrait of Romantic culture, Spheres of Action is essential reading for Romanticists, historians, and scholars with interests in language and performance.

Table of contents:

PART 1 Public Speaking

1 Re-sounding Romanticism: John Thelwall and the Science and Practice of Elocution

2 Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act

3 Wordsworth’s Lament

4 Blasphemy Trials and The Cenci: Parody as Performative

5 A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Romanticism, and the Tragedy of Human Origin

PART 2 Body Language

6 Telling Lies with Body Language

7 Cross-Dressing and the Performance of Gender in Romantic-Period Comic Plays by Women

8 Fox’s Tears: The Staging of Liquid Politics

9 Citational Cosmopolitics: Staël, Byron, and the Foreignizing Effect of Cultural Translation

10 Captain Barclay’s Performance: Decoding Pedestrianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

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