Spheres of Action : Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture /

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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dick, Alexander J., 1970-, Esterhammer, Angela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2009
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Performatif (Philosophie)
Actes de parole.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Langage et langues dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Romanticism.
Performative (Philosophy)
Language and languages in literature.
English literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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