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The Art of Eloquence - Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (Hardcover)
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The Art of Eloquence - Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (Hardcover)
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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.
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