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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture Book

This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body in a number of eighteenth-century cultural contexts--including oratory, theatre and the novel--and charts the growing links between bodily eloquence and the wider formalities of politeness. Paul Goring shows how 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, and how the body was caught up in a cultural contest concerning the 'proper' forms of physical expression.Read More

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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.

  • 0521103207
  • 9780521103206
  • Paul Goring
  • 19 March 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 236
  • 1
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