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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
This is the first book-length treatment of the Romantic literary lecture in Britain, a popular event that caught the public's imagination at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Cover -- The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain -- Copyright --...
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This is the first book-length treatment of the Romantic literary lecture in Britain, a popular event that caught the public's imagination at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Cover -- The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Approaching the Lecture Room -- THE CRITICAL FIELD OF ROMANTIC-ERA PUBLIC LECTURING -- ENGAGING IN SPECULATION: APPROACHING HISTORICAL SPEAKING PERFORMANCES -- MAPPING ROMANTIC-ERA LITERARY LECTURING -- 2: Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act -- COLERIDGE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION: A STAR IS (RE)BORN -- SPENDING TIME: THE 1811-12 LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON -- THE PEDAGOGY OF PERMANENCE: "FIXED PRINCIPLES" AND EXTEMPORANEITY -- SUSPENDING DISBELIEF: HAMLET IN THE LECTURE ROOM -- HAPPY ENDINGS: ROMEO AND JULIET -- 3: John Thelwall's School of Eloquence -- A DEFENSE OF "ORAL ELOQUENCE" -- PHYS ED FOR POETS -- APPLIED POETICS -- LOCUTION, LOCUTION, LOCUTION -- 4: Thomas Campbell, Scholar-Poet -- THE CASE AGAINST CAMPBELL -- PERFORMING ENLIGHTENMENT -- LITERARY LECTURING'S AFTERLIVES: "A GREAT LONDON UNIVERSITY" -- 5: Acting Like an Author: Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets -- JACOB'S DREAM: FATHERS, SONS, AND THE WORK OF MOURNING -- LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS: AN ELEGY -- DON'T SPEAK: THE CASE FOR AUTHORSHIP -- ACTING LIKE AN AUTHOR: HAZLITT'SDELIVERY STYLE -- 6: The Thrush in the Theater: Keats at the Surrey Institution -- LISTENING LESSONS -- HEARING HAZLITT'S LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS -- POETRY DEMONSTRATION: "O THOU WHOSE FACE HATH FELT THE WINTER'S WIND" -- APPLIED LISTENING: THE LATER POEMS AND LETTERS -- 7: The Last Word: Women in the Romantic Lecture Room -- "PHILOSOPHY IN FASHION" AND OTHER STRICTURES -- ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD: THE RIVAL -- MARY RUSSELL MITFORD: THE APPRENTICE -- LADY CHARLOTTE BURY: PATRONAGE AND PROSE -- CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE'S CONVERSATION POEMS -- PRIVATE LECTURES -- References -- Index.
