IMPRISON D WRANGLERS - RHETORICAL CULTURE OF HOUSE OF CO

Zusatztext a well-researched and clearly expressed study. Informationen zum Autor Christopher Reid is senior lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London where he specializes in eighteenth-century literature and political rhetoric. He has published books and articles on a number of political writers and speakers, including Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Margaret Thatcher, and is currently working on a study of the eighteenth-century parliamentarian, William Windham. Klappentext Imprison'd Wranglers is the first detailed study of parliamentary speaking in its golden age at the end of the eighteenth century. The book looks closely at the physical and political conditions in which these men spoke, and the techniques they used to discredit the arguments of their opponents and to move and convince their audience in the House. Zusammenfassung Imprison'd Wranglers is the first detailed study of parliamentary speaking in its golden age at the end of the eighteenth century. The book looks closely at the physical and political conditions in which these men spoke, and the techniques they used to discredit the arguments of their opponents and to move and convince their audience in the House.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Reid, Christopher (Senior Lecturer in English Reid, Reid Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199581092
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958109-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political structure & processes, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Political structure and processes, C 1700 To C 1800