Spheres of action : speech and performance in Romantic culture / edited by Alexander Dick and Angela Esterhammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esterhammer, Angela, editor.

Dick, Alexander John, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Language and languages in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Performative (Philosophy).

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.

Contents:

Re-sounding romanticism: John Thelwall and the science and practice of elocution / Judith Thompson

Coleridge the lecturer, a disappearing act / Sarah M. Zimmerman

Wordsworth's lament / Alexander Dick

Blasphemy trials and the Cenci: parody as performative / Victoria Myers

A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin / Richard Van Oort

Telling lies with body language / Frederick Burwick

Cross-dressing and the performance of gender in romantic-period comic plays by women / Marjean D. Purinton

Fox's tears: the staging of liquid politics / Daniel O'Quinn

Citational cosmoppolitics: Stae·ll, Byron, and the foreignizing effect of cultural translation / Joshua Lambier

Captain Barclay's performance: decoding pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century Britain / Thomas C. Crochunis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9269-3

1-4426-8918-8

OCLC:

923772226