The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain 1st edition by Sarah Zimmerman 0192569561 9780192569561

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Author:   Sarah Zimmerman 

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London’s cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period’s most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed to shape auditors’ reading habits, burnish their own professional profiles, and establish a literary canon. Auditors wielded their own considerable influence, since their sustained approbation was necessary to a lecturer’s success, and independent series could collapse midway if attendance waned. Two chapters are therefore devoted to the auditors, whose creative responses to what they heard often constituted cultural works in their own right. Auditors wrote poems and letters about lecture performances, acted as patrons to lecturers, and hosted dinners and conversation parties that followed these events. Prominent auditors included John Keats, Mary Russell Mitford, Henry Crabb Robinson, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, and Lady Charlotte Bury. The Romantic public literary lecture is a fascinating cultural phenomenon in its own right, but understanding the medium has significant implications for some of the period’s most important literary criticism, such as Coleridge’s readings of Shakespeare and Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Poets (1818). The book’s two main aims are to chart the emergence of the literary lecture as a popular medium and to develop a critical approach to these events by drawing on an interdisciplinary discussion about how to treat historical speaking performances.

The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain 1st Table of contents:

1. Approaching the Lecture Room
The Critical Field of Romantic-Era Public Lecturing
Engaging in Speculation: Approaching Historical Speaking Performances
Mapping Romantic-Era: Literary Lecturing
2. Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act
Coleridge at the Royal Institution: A Star is (RE)Born
Spending Time: The 1811–12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton
The Pedagogy of Permanence: “Fixed Principles” and Extemporaneity
Suspending Disbelief: Hamlet in the Lecture Room
Happy Endings: Romeo and Juliet
3. John Thelwall’s School of Eloquence
A Defense of “Oral Eloquence”
Phys ED for Poets
Applied Poetics
Locution, Locution, Locution
4. Thomas Campbell, Scholar-Poet
The Case Against Campbell
Performing Enlightenment
Literary Lecturing’s Afterlives: “A Great London University”
5. Acting Like an Author Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Poets
Jacob’s Dream_ Fathers, Sons, and the Work of Mourning
Lectures on the English Poets: An Elegy
Don’t Speak: The Case for Authorship
Acting Like an Author: Hazlitt’s Delivery Style
6. The Thrush in the Theater Keats:at the Surrey Institution
Listening Lessons
Hearing Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Poets
Poetry Demonstration: “O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter’s Wind”
Applied Listening: The Later Poems and Letters
7. The Last Word Women: in the Romantic Lecture Room
“ Philosophy in Fashion” and Other Strictures
Anna Letitia Barbauld: The Rival
Mary Russell Mitford: The Apprentice
Lady Charlotte Bury: Patronage and Prose
Catherine Maria Fanshawe’s Conversation Poems

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