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The Art of Eloquence

Paperback • 2010 • English

The Art of Eloquence

By Matthew Bevis

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About the book

'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they and their publics conceived the relations between political speech and literary endeavour. Drawing on a wide range of sources - classical rhetoric, Hansard, new...Show more

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9780199593224

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

The Art of Eloquence

Format

Paperback

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