TY - BOOK AU - Esterhammer,Angela AU - Dick,Alexander John TI - Spheres of action: speech and performance in Romantic culture SN - 9780802098030 AV - PR457 S753 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Toronto, Buffalo PB - University of Toronto Press KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Language and languages in literature KW - Romanticism KW - Great Britain KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Performative (Philosophy) N1 - 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 ER -