Spheres of action
Subtitle: speech and performance in Romantic culture
By: edited by Alexander Dick and Angela Esterhammer.
Contributors: Esterhammer, Angela.; Dick, Alexander John, 1970-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780802098030
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Language and languages in literature; Romanticism -- Great Britain; Speech acts (Linguistics); Performative (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Re-sounding romanticism: John Thelwall and the science and practice of elocution / Judith Thompson; title: Coleridge the lecturer, a disappearing act / Sarah M. Zimmerman; title: Wordsworth's lament / Alexander Dick; title: Blasphemy trials and the Cenci: parody as performative / Victoria Myers; title: A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin / Richard Van Oort; title: Telling lies with body language / Frederick Burwick; title: Cross-dressing and the performance of gender in romantic-period comic plays by women / Marjean D. Purinton; title: Fox's tears: the staging of liquid politics / Daniel O'Quinn; title: Citational cosmoppolitics: Staëll, Byron, and the foreignizing effect of cultural translation / Joshua Lambier; title: Captain Barclay's performance: decoding pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century Britain / Thomas C. Crochunis.