The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
| Document type: | Dissertations |
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| Author(s): | Michael Davis |
| Title: | The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Publisher: | UMI Company |
| City: | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | Dept. of the Humanities (Institutionen för humaniora) Dept. of Humanities S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 780 00 http://human2.ihu.hk-r.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | mdv@ihu.hk-r.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing is a study of the cultural anxieties about the power of public speaking that pervaded the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its argument is that those anxieties formed a discursive center for two of the most important forces in the history of British letters and literary studies -- Romanticism and the New Rhetoric -- and that those forces engaged it primarily through a shared concern with the rise of religious evangelism. |
| Subject: | The Humanities\English |
| Keywords: | Rhetoric, Oratory, Belles Lettres, History of Rhetoric, Romanticism, Britain |
| Note: | This dissertation is currently being revised for publication in book form. The Dissertation is registered at the Library of Congress as TX 4-649-394. |
| URN: | urn:nbn:se:bth-00122 |
