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Imprison'd Wranglers - The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons 1760-1800 (Hardcover)
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Imprison'd Wranglers - The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons 1760-1800 (Hardcover)
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Although the later eighteenth century has long been regarded as
parliamentary oratory's golden age, its speaking history remains to
a large extent unexplored. Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at
the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House
of Commons during this eventful period, a time when Parliament
consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a
new kind of prominence in the public eye. Drawing on a wide range
of contemporary sources including newspaper reports, parliamentary
diaries, memoirs, correspondence, political cartoons, and
portraiture, this book reconstructs the scene in St. Stephen's
Chapel, where the Commons then sat. It shows how reputations were
forged and characters contested as speakers like Burke, North, Fox,
and Pitt crossed swords in confrontations that were both personal
and political. With close attention to the early lives of selected
MPs, it pieces together the education of the parliamentary elite
from their initiation as public speakers in schools, universities,
and debating clubs to the moment of trial when they rose to speak
in the House for the first time. Since this was the period when the
newspaper reporting of parliamentary debates was first established,
the book also assesses the impact speeches made on the audiences of
ordinary readers outside Parliament. It explains how parliamentary
speeches got into print, what was at stake politically in that
process, and argues that changing conceptions of publicness in the
eighteenth century altered the image of the parliamentary speaker
and unsettled the traditional rhetorical culture of the House.
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