The elocutionary movement / editorial selection by Carol Poster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poster, Carol, 1956-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Great Britain.

Rhetoric.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

7 volumes : facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Thoemmes Press, 2003.

Summary:

This set contains a representative range of texts on British rhetoric in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, written in a variety of literary forms--expository prose, question and answer, anthology of examples, and verse.

Contents:

v. 1. Chirologia or, The natural language of the hand (1648) / J. B. Bulwer

v. 2. The art of speaking (1768) / James Burgh

v. 3. Lectures on the art of reading. In two parts (1781) / Thomas Sheridan

v. 4. The speaker or, Miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers (1799) / William Enfield

v. 5. Elements of elocution : in which the principles of reading and speaking are investigated (1810) / John Walker

v. 6. Orthoepy and elocution or, The first part of a philosophical and practical grammar of the English language (1829) / James Knowles

v. 7.Short treatises.

Notes:

Reprinted from the 1648-1829 editions.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656. Chirologia.

J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656. Chironomia.

Burgh, James, 1714-1775. Art of speaking.

Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788. Lectures on the art of reading.

Enfield, William, 1741-1797. Speaker or, Miscellaneous pieces.

Walker, John, 1732-1807. Elements of elocution.

Knowles, James, 1759-1840. Orthoepy and elocution.

Short treatises.

ISBN:

1843710234

OCLC:

51993179