03479cam a2200577 a 4500 101358 20230410105217.0 010410s2001 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 2001028834 (OCoLC)ocm46793089 DLC eng DLC UKM BAKER NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG UBC HEBIS EXW OCLCQ GBA2-65293 023112144X (acid-free paper) 9780231121446 (acid-free paper) NLGGC 216846536 YDXCP 1780359 NZ1 6243336 AU@ 000022638965 HEBIS 102152772 GEBAY 6697588 (OCoLC)46793089 e-uk--- 941.081 21 15.70 bcl DA560 M515p 2001 Meisel, Joseph S. Public speech and the culture of public life in the Age of Gladstone / Joseph S. Meisel. New York : Columbia University Press, c2001. xiv, 382 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Based on the author's doctoral dissertation. Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-363) and index. "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 study 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 William E. Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, John Bright, Joseph Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and Canon Liddon - Joseph S. Meisel traces the ways in which oratory came to occupy a central position in the conception and practice of Victorian public life." "Meisel examines the public speeches made in three common arenas: Parliament, the pulpit, and the courtroom. Speech-making was essential to the practices of politics, religion, and law, and came to be the ultimate expression of their public promotion in the nineteenth century. By focusing on the act of public speaking itself rather than providing close analyses of particular "representative" speeches or sermons of the era, this work breaks new ground and demonstrates the value of approaching the history of British public life through oratory and its social contexts and practices."--Jacket. Schools for Public Speaking -- The House of Commons -- Religion -- Law -- The Platform. Political oratory Great Britain History 19th century. Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 Oratory. Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901. Oratory Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain Civilization 19th century. Redes. gtt Politieke cultuur. gtt Maatschappij. gtt Politische Rede. swd England. swd Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy044/2001028834.html Baker and Taylor BTCP 2001028834 YBP Library Services YANK 1780359 Baker & Taylor BKTY 63.50 63.50 023112144X 0003713931 active lcc bk FHM C0 DRFGD 32165 32165 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 3 0 DA560 M515p 2001 00000094374 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk