The Art of Eloquence
Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-959322-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-959322-4 (ISBN)
This book examines the relations between public speaking and literary expression in the lives and work of Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce. Matthew Bevis considers the procedures, languages, and styles of oratory reported in the newspapers and Hansard, and offers a new understanding of literature in relation to the public sphere.
'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 culture from 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 and embody forms of responsible political conduct.
'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 culture from 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 and embody forms of responsible political conduct.
Introduction: Literary Persuasions ; 1. Byron's Hearing ; 2. An Audience with Dickens ; 3. Tennyson and Sound Judgement ; 4. Joyce's Breathing Space ; Coda: An Eyed Ear
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.9.2010 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 468 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-959322-1 / 0199593221 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-959322-4 / 9780199593224 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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