Thesis
Reading aloud? Elocution manuals and reading practices (1750-1800)
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This thesis examines eighteenth-century elocution manuals: instructional works concerned with the practice of reading aloud. The term 'elocution manual' is a retrospective one, but it is useful in identifying instructional texts designed to aid the performance of reading aloud in social settings. The instruction such books provide is not limited to practical instruction in reading aloud, as outlined by the tenets of the elocution movement; elocution manuals also concerned themselves with ...
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+ Williams, A
Division:
HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
Sub department:
English Faculty
Oxford college:
Exeter College
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Exeter College, University of Oxford
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2021-01-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Brewster, EB
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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