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Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture

Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture

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Publisher University of Toronto Press
Year 21/02/2009
Pages 336
Version hardback
Readership level Professional and scholarly
Language English
ISBN 9780802098030
Categories Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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With contributions from leading Romanticist scholars who draw on literary history, performance studies, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period. These essays consider cultural phenomena such as elocution and political oratory, newspaper journalism, public mourning, the function of gesture and clothing in theatre - even a long-distance walking contest. They examine the problematic relationships among action, agency, and language in a variety of cultural institutions and media from the era. Exploring aspects of public speaking and body language, these essays propose that understanding the culture and institutions of the Romantic period requires nuanced approaches to performance and agency. The collection also studies the ways in which the Romantics discovered both the potency and limitations of performativity. Presenting a boldly multifaceted portrait of Romantic culture, Spheres of Action is essential reading for Romanticists, historians, and scholars with interests in language and performance. Spheres of Action is a series of superb, high powered essays on Romantici-era 'speech' and 'performance' as manifesting the materiality of action in contemporary society. -- Gary Farnell, Literature & History, vol 19:01:10

Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture

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