The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture

by Paul Goring

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Paul Goring demonstrates how eighteenth-century writers and performers, including Samuel Richardson, David Garrick and Laurence Sterne, were involved in the construction of innovative bourgeois ideals of sentimental eloquence in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Spanning oratory, theatre and the novel, Goring charts the growing links between bodily eloquence and the wider formalities of politeness to reveal a cultural contest concerning the appropriate forms of physical expression.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521845092

ISBN13:9780521845090

Release Date:January 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Criticism & Theory Cultural English Literature History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences

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