Dialogue, didacticism and the genres of dispute : literary dialogues in an age of revolution
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Dialogue, didacticism and the genres of dispute : literary dialogues in an age of revolution
(The Enlightenment world : political and intellectual history of the long eighteenth century, no. 25)
Pickering & Chatto, 2012
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Dialogue, didacticism and the genres of dispute : literary dialogues in the Age of Revolution
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index
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Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Theory and Practice
- Chapter 1 Loyalist and Radical Dialogues of the Revolution Controversy: The 'Ambiguities' of 'Popular Address'
- Chapter 2 'I am Like that House or Kingdom Divided Against Itself, of Which I have Read Somewhere in the Holy Scriptures': Psychological Disunity, Mentoring from the Heart, and Literary Innovation: Evangelical Dialogues, 1795-1801
- Chapter 3 Religious 'Enthusiasm' and 'Practical' Mentoring: Dialogic Responses to the Blagdon Controversy
- Chapter 4 Education and Philosophical Persuasion: The Dialogues of Dr Alexander Thomson and Sir Uvedale Price
- Chapter 5 'Interrogative' Philosophizing and the Ambiguities of Egalitarian Dialogues: Sir Richard Phillips's Four Dialogues Between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the Common-Sense Philosophy (1824) and Robert Southey's Sir Thomas More: Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829)
- Chapter 6 Conversation and 'Enlightened Philosophy': The 'Dialectical Comedies' of Thomas Love Peacock and Imaginary Conversations (1824-9) of Walter Savage Landor
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