TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meisel,Joseph S.
TI  - Public speech and the culture of public life in the Age of Gladstone
SN  - 023112144X (acid-free paper)
AV  - DA560 M515p 2001
U1  - 941.081 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Gladstone, W. E.
KW  - Political oratory
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Oratory
KW  - Redes
KW  - gtt
KW  - Politieke cultuur
KW  - Maatschappij
KW  - Politische Rede
KW  - swd
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1837-1901
KW  - Civilization
KW  - England
N1  - Based on the author's doctoral dissertation; Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-363) and index; Schools for Public Speaking --; The House of Commons --; Religion --; Law --; The Platform
N2  - "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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy044/2001028834.html
ER  -