Adrian J Wallbank

Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute

Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781848932791
• ISBN-10: 1848932790
• Artikelnr.: 43752489

Autorenporträt

Adrian J. Wallbank

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theory and Practice; Chapter 1 Loyalist and Radical Dialogues
of the Revolution Controversy: The 'Ambiguities' of 'Popular Address';
Chapter 2 'I am Like that House or Kingdom Divided Against Itself, of Which
I have Read Somewhere in the Holy Scriptures': Psychological Disunity,
Mentoring from the Heart, and Literary Innovation: Evangelical Dialogues,
1795-1801; Chapter 3 Religious 'Enthusiasm' and 'Practical' Mentoring:
Dialogic Responses to the Blagdon Controversy; Chapter 4 Education and
Philosophical Persuasion: The Dialogues of Dr Alexander Thomson and Sir
Uvedale Price; Chapter 5 'Interrogative' Philosophizing and the Ambiguities
of Egalitarian Dialogues: Sir Richard Phillips's Four Dialogues Between an
Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the Common-Sense Philosophy (1824) and
Robert Southey's Sir Thomas More: Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects
of Society (1829); Chapter 6 Conversation and 'Enlightened Philosophy': The
'Dialectical Comedies' of Thomas Love Peacock and Imaginary Conversations
(1824-9) of Walter Savage Landor;