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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of cultural concerns, from social aspiration, to moral rectitude. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 performance poetry elocution miscellanies education •
“A Just and Graceful Elocution”:
Miscellanies and Sociable Reading...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
... supplied for eighteenth-century readers. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 poetry miscellanies Milton elocution reading aloud quotation pedagogy •
Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century
Poetic Miscellanies...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 January 2005
..., or elocution, was a neces-
sity, and by the 1750s, with class divisions more and more permeable, it was
probably viewed by those of low status as one means of rising socially. As
dressing above one’s station was almost the mode, so speaking above one’s
station could complete the impersonation...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Fits of Passion (1996) stand as exemplars
of the critical literature—one might well ask whether it is possible to put new
tires on this cultural vehicle and take it for a spin. Goring manages to do so by
analyzing elocution debates that were carried out on the stage, in the pulpit...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 105–109.
Published: 01 January 2021
... in the mechanics of orating and performing texts in the pulpit, the spouting club, or drawing room. In what Williams dubs the great age of elocution (11), good readers were not always or even often silent readers. On the contrary, reading aloud was a polite accomplishment cultivated not only by those who made...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
... purpose, being both edify-
ing as literature for the reader, and useful exercises for the potential pub-
lic speaker. The “Hymn” appears in Exercises in Elocution (1780, 1782, 1783,
1786 twice, 1787, 1791, 1793, 1795 twice, as well as by the variant title of
The Speaker, or Exercises in Elocution...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... (1774), which aims to improve the
elocution of its readers, collects the speech in a section devoted to “Pathetic
Pieces,” omitting the Fool and Edgar’s interjection thereby truncating the
scene into a soliloquy.41 The same structural change occurs when the scene
Shakespeare...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 142–157.
Published: 01 January 2017
... such as Modern Poems: Selected Chiefly From Miscellanies (1776), Select
Poems and Ballads from Miscellanies (1777), Old Ballads, Historical and Narra-
tive (1777), and Exercises in Elocution (1780), they were printed without attri-
butions, suggesting that the editors of these collections had been unwilling...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., then a substantial landowner, postmaster, and judge who ultimately left significant land holdings to the University of Vermont. 24 These were all social roles for which the highly developed literacy skills of elegant penmanship, wide-ranging and self-improving literary tastes, and expert elocution displayed...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 107–129.
Published: 01 January 2003
... (London: R.
and J. Dodsley, 1756), p. 368. Sheridan was in fact primarily interested in the
improvement of English as a spoken language, and specifically deplored the anti-social
effect of print: see also his A Course of Lectures on Elocution (1762...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 28–51.
Published: 01 January 2003
... [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1977], p. 46).
27. A Course of Lectures on Elocution, together with Two Dissertations on Language
(London, 1767), p. 7.
28. The Art of Speaking (London, 1676), p. 36.
29. The Method of Teaching...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of cure. For a historicized discussion of cure in the eighteenth century, see Jared S. Richman, “The Other King's Speech: Elocution and the Politics of Disability in Georgian Britain,” Eighteenth Century 59 (2018): 279–304. 40. Aaron Hill, “The Progress of Wit: A Caveat,” in Eighteenth-Century...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of that
trust itself provides readers with concrete evidence of his moral conversion,
even when this requires him assuming the role of an editor rather than a
protagonist. Belford is not endowed with Lovelace’s “natural great deal of
elocution,” nor does he ever compose his letters in a state of mind...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
... The notion that words (the language of ideas) should be accom-
panied by gestures (the language of emotion) was also popularized during
the eighteenth century in works such as Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism
(1762) and Thomas Sheridan’s Course of Lectures on Elocution (1762), which
foreground...
