Imprison'd wranglers [electronic resource] : the rhetorical culture of the House of Commons 1760-1800 / Christopher Reid

Author: Reid, Christopher, 1952-
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- I.THE SPEAKING CHAMBER -- 2.Rhetorical Spaces -- II.OUT OF DOORS -- 3.Fictitious Tribunals -- 4.Bottling Niagara -- 5.Gillray in the Gallery -- III.MAKING A FIGURE -- 6.Educating the Orator -- 7.Where Character is Power -- IV.RHETORICAL CONTESTS -- 8.Debating Lord Clive -- 9.Community of Mind: Quotation and Persuasion -- 10.Epilogue.

Summary

'Imprison'd Wranglers' is a detailed study of parliamentary speaking in its golden age at the end of the 18th century. The book looks closely at the physical and political conditions in which these men spoke, and the techniques they used to discredit the arguments of their opponents and to move and convince their audience in the House.

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9780191745621 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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