Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in an Age of Revolution

Name: Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in an Age of Revolution
ISBN: 9781315655239

doi:10.4324/9781315655239

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Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in an Age of Revolution

ABSTRACT

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.

Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in an Age of Revolution

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: Theory and Practice

chapter |38 pages

Loyalist and Radical Dialogues of the Revolution Controversy: The ‘Ambiguities' of ‘Popular Address'

chapter |34 pages

‘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 |36 pages

Religious ‘Enthusiasm' and ‘Practical' Mentoring: Dialogic Responses to the Blagdon Controversy

chapter |32 pages

Education and Philosophical Persuasion: The Dialogues of Dr Alexander Thomson and Sir Uvedale Price

chapter |31 pages

‘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 |29 pages

Conversation and ‘Enlightened Philosophy': The ‘Dialectical Comedies' of Thomas Love Peacock and Imaginary Conversations (1824–9) of Walter Savage Landor