Joseph s Meisel.

Joseph s Meisel. Public Speech and the civilization of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone. recent York: Columbia University Press. 2001 Pp xv 382 $5000 ISBN 0-23l-12144-X

A welcome addition to as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but historical and rhetorical studies of nineteenth-century Britain, Joseph Meisel's work offers a comprehensive view of important oratorical endeavors from the era of Fox and Pitt to the Great War. In tracing the phenomenal vegetation of public speaking, Meisel superbly argues that public dialect was "nothing less than a key-note defining characteristic of British public life in the

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