British Romanticism and the Matter of Voice

"Bringing together ideas about poetry, philosophy, medicine, and politics to investigate the relationship between bodies and voices in Romantic-era British literature, Alice Rhodes reveals how Erasumus Darwin, John Thelwall, and Percy Bysshe Shelley came to present the voice as a form of physical, autonomous, and effective political action"--

List of contents

Introduction: mechanic art and elocutionary science; 1. Erasmus Darwin and the mechanics of speech; 2. John Thelwall and the physiology of speech; 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poetry of speech; Coda: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the speaking body; Bibliography.

About the author

Alice Rhodes is an honorary research associate at The University of York's Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. She has held fellowships with The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Association for Romantic Studies, and has published articles in Essays in Romanticism and European Romantic Review.

Summary

Bringing together ideas about poetry, philosophy, medicine, and politics to investigate the relationship between bodies and voices in Romantic-era British literature, Alice Rhodes reveals how Erasumus Darwin, John Thelwall, and Percy Bysshe Shelley came to present the voice as a form of physical, autonomous, and effective political action.

Foreword

A stimulating enquiry into the philosophical and political implications of the relationship between bodies and voices in the Romantic era.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Rhodes, Alice (University of York) Rhodes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009503419
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950341-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; c 1800 to c 1900, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social discrimination & inequality, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Romanticism, Phonetics, phonology, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 1700 To C 1800, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Social discrimination and social justice