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Dialogue, didacticism and the genres of dispute : literary dialogues in an age of revolution / by Adrian J. Wallbank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallbank, Adrian J.
- Series:
- Enlightenment world ; no. 25.
- Enlightenment world : political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century ; no. 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dialogue in literature.
- Direct discourse in literature.
- Dialogues, English--History and criticism.
- Dialogues, English.
- Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.
- Didactic literature, English.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781848932791
- 1848932790
- OCLC:
- 758984500
- Publisher Number:
- 99949290216
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