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Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture

Contributor(s): Dick, Alexander (Editor), Esterhammer, Angela (Editor)

ISBN: 9780802098030

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Pub Date: February 21, 2009

Dewey: 820.9

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 9.10" L x 6.10" W ( 1.30 lbs) 336 pages

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Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.

Brief description: Alexander Dick is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

Review Quotes: Spheres of Action is a series of superb, high powered essays on Romantici-era 'speech' and 'performance' as manifesting the materiality of action in contemporary society.--Gary Farnell, Literature & History, vol 19:01:10

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