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The romantic literary lecture in Britain / Sarah Zimmerman

Author:
Zimmerman, Sarah MacKenzie
Published:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Approaching the Lecture Room -- The Critical Field of Romantic-Era Public Lecturing Engaging in Speculation: Approaching Historical Speaking Performances -- Mapping Romantic-Era Literary Lecturing -- 2.Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act -- Coleridge at the Royal Institution: A Star is (Re)Born -- Spending Time: The 1811-12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton -- The Pedagogy of Permanence: "Fixed Principles and Extemporaneity -- Suspending Disbelief: Hamlet in the Lecture Room -- Happy Endings: Romeo and Juliet -- 3.John Thelwall's School of Eloquence -- A Defense of "Oral Eloquence" -- Phys Ed for Poets -- Applied Poetics -- Locution, Locution, Locution -- 4.Thomas Campbell, Scholar-Poet -- The Case against Campbell -- Performing Enlightenment -- Literary Lecturing's Afterlives: "a great London University" -- 5.Acting Like an Author: Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets -- Jacob's Dream: Fathers, Sons, and the Work of Mourning -- Lectures on the English Poets: An Elegy -- Don't Speak: The Case for Authorship -- Acting Like an Author: Hazlitt's Delivery Style -- 6.The Thrush in the Theater: Keats at the Surrey Institution -- Listening Lessons -- Hearing Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets -- Poetry Demonstration: "O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind" -- Applied Listening: The Later Poems and Letters -- 7.The Last Word: Women in the Romantic Lecture Room -- "Philosophy in Fashion" and Other Strictures -- Anna Letitia Barbauld: The Rival -- Mary Russell Mitford: The Apprentice -- Lady Charlotte Bury: Patronage and Prose -- Catherine Maria Fanshawe's Conversation Poems -- Private Lectures.
Summary:
This is a book-length treatment of the Romantic literary lecture in Britain, a popular event that caught the public's imagination at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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ISBN:
9780191872631 (ebook)
Audience Notes:
Specialized.
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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