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Paul GoringPublication Details
BookCambridge Univ Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR448.B63 G67 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Paul Goring demonstrates how eighteenth-century writers and performers, including Samuel Richardson, David Garrick and Laurence Sterne, were involved in the construction of innovative bourgeois ideals of sentimental eloquence in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Body, Human, in literature — History — 18th century
- Sensitivity (Personality trait) — History — 18th century
- Body, Human — Social aspects — Great Britain — History — 18th century
- Body, Human — Symbolic aspects — Great Britain — History — 18th century
- Sensitivity (Personality trait)
- English literature — 18th century
- Eighteenth century
Contents
- Introduction
- Spectacular passions : eighteenth-century oratory and the reform of eloquence
- Bodies on the borders of politeness : ‘Orator Henley’, Methodist enthusiasm and polite literature
- Thomas Sheridan : forging the British body
- The art of acting : mid- century stagecraft and the broadcast of feeling
- Polite reading : sentimental fiction and the performance of response
- Epilogue
ISBN
- 0521845092
- 9780521845090
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