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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture / Paul Goring.

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Paul Goring explores the eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. Through innovative readings of Sterne, Richardson and other authors alongside manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the body became an instrument for the d...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Goring, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature.
Human body > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Sensitivity (Personality trait)
Eighteenth century.
English literature.
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Great Britain.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Spectacular passions : eighteenth-century oratory and the reform of eloquence
  • Bodies on the borders of politeness : 'Orator Henley', Methodist enthusiasm and polite literature
  • Thomas Sheridan : forging the British body
  • The art of acting : mid-century stagecraft and the broadcast of feeling
  • Polite reading : sentimental fiction and the performance of response
  • Epilogue.

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