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Spheres of action : speech and performance in Romantic culture / edited by Alexander Dick and Angela Esterhammer. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2009. - 306 p. : ill.

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: Staëll, Byron, and the foreignizing effect of cultural translation / Joshua Lambier -- Captain Barclay's performance: decoding pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century Britain / Thomas C. Crochunis. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

ISBN: 9780802098030 0802098037

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Language and languages in literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Performative (Philosophy)

LC Class. No.: PR457 / S753 2009