Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of GladstoneColumbia University Press, 6 дек. 2001 г. - Всего страниц: 336 By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This book argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrumentality of public speech. Shedding new light on the careers of many of the most important figures of the Victorian era and beyond, including Gladstone, Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, John Bright, Joseph Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and Canon Liddon, the book traces the ways in which oratory came to occupy a central position in the conception and practice of Victorian public life. Not a study of rhetoric or a celebration of great oratory, the book stresses the social developments that led to the production and consumption of these speeches. |
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... fact and interpretation are the author's own. At Columbia University Press, many thanks are due to my editor, Kate Wittenberg, Leslie Bialler, and the rest of the editorial team. My scholarly pursuits have been underpinned by the most ...
... fact and interpretation are the author's own. At Columbia University Press, many thanks are due to my editor, Kate Wittenberg, Leslie Bialler, and the rest of the editorial team. My scholarly pursuits have been underpinned by the most ...
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... fact, far more literary (in a belletristic sense) than historical. Readers are meant to be uplifted by the noble sentiments and eternal verities articulated in the powerful phrases of the orators. Although it was more common in the past ...
... fact, far more literary (in a belletristic sense) than historical. Readers are meant to be uplifted by the noble sentiments and eternal verities articulated in the powerful phrases of the orators. Although it was more common in the past ...
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... fact that the most important public woman, Queen Victoria, ceased making speeches from the throne after the death of Albert in 1861,20 precisely when public speaking was becoming central to the practice of public life. Despite the ...
... fact that the most important public woman, Queen Victoria, ceased making speeches from the throne after the death of Albert in 1861,20 precisely when public speaking was becoming central to the practice of public life. Despite the ...
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... fact that Britain had emerged from the Congress of Vienna with the largest empire in history.11 Under these circumstances, once the war was over, it was natural that the young men from the “political classes” gone up 14 / schools for ...
... fact that Britain had emerged from the Congress of Vienna with the largest empire in history.11 Under these circumstances, once the war was over, it was natural that the young men from the “political classes” gone up 14 / schools for ...
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... fact, from week to week, debates could be on any subject (other than matters theological). Most importantly, there were no established parties, or established party leaders. “The debate is not organized as a Parliament, so that the ...
... fact, from week to week, debates could be on any subject (other than matters theological). Most importantly, there were no established parties, or established party leaders. “The debate is not organized as a Parliament, so that the ...
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3 Religion | 107 |
Illustrations | 167 |
4 Law | 167 |
5 The Platform | 223 |
Conclusion | 275 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 365 |
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