Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals Public Orality, - The First Speech

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British lecture circuit and in print from 1870-1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies, and the history of feminism, it sheds new light on the interdependence of orality, print and the rise of the British women's movement.

List of contents

1. Archaeology of Voices: Women Audiences and Speakers at London Lecture Venues; 2. Periodical Education: Lecture-Going and Social Causeries in London Penny Weeklies; 3. Romance and Sensation:Spicing up the Lecture Circuit in Penny Weekly Fiction; 4. Serial Spectacle: Getting Used to Women Lecturers in Penny Weekly Fiction; 5. Collective Vocality: Mass Print and Speech in Anti-Feminist, New Woman and Suffrage Writing; 6. First Speech: Training Women Speakers in Suffrage Writing, Rhetorical Manuals and Feminist Weeklies; Coda: Transmediation - 'Speech or Silence'; Appendix; Index

About the author

Anne-Julia Zwierlein is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany, specialising in Early Modern and Victorian Studies. She has published work on Milton, early modern city comedy, literature and science, literature and imperialism, the novel of formation and Victorian oral cultures.

Summary

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British lecture circuit and in print from 1870-1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies, and the history of feminism, it sheds new light on the interdependence of orality, print and the rise of the British women’s movement.

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Julia Zwierlein
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032895192
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289519-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Communication Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Performance Art, c 1900 to c 1909