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Remembering the Body: Eighteenth-Century Elocution and the Oral Tradition
- Rhetorica
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 2010
- pp. 67-95
- 10.1353/rht.2010.0025
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This article revisits eighteenth-century elocutionists Thomas Sheridan and John Walker by examining their work in two contexts: 1) classical imitation and oral reading traditions that engaged the body and emotions; and 2) early modern views of the faculties, particularly the faculties of the imagination and taste. These contexts, I argue, are essential to understanding the social and ethical claims the elocutionists made to support the revival of elocution and to understanding how they perceived their own practices.
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