Recently added articles from Nineteenth-Century Prose:
From the editor ...
Mar 22, 2002 ... The present Special Issue on "Platform Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain" by Guest Editor and Editorial Board member Martin Hewitt, is a companion volume to the Fall 2000 (27/2) issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose, which was a Special Issue on "Rhetoric." In the previous volume, William ...
Aspects of platform culture in nineteenth-century Britain.
Mar 22, 2002; ... This Introduction provides background to the more focused essays that follow. It calls attention to the continued neglect of the nineteenth-century platform, and especially--in the wake of Meisel's recent study of the political platform--of the lecture, pointing out that the extent to ...
Finding an audience: the political platform, the lecture platform, and the rhetoric of self-help.
Mar 22, 2002; ... This article examines the influence of the experience of public speech on the literary career of Samuel Smiles, archetypal Victorian proponent of the gospel of self-help. Notwithstanding Smiles' extensive written output of nearly 30 books, innumerable periodical articles, and employment as ...
Seen but not heard? Women's platforms, respectability, and female publics in the mid-nineteenth century.
Mar 22, 2002; ... This article explores the role of the press in defining the boundaries of respectable feminine activity in the public sphere in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Through an examination of the reporting of women's meetings and appeals to female opinion, it demonstrates that although women who ...
The Egyptian Hall and the platform of transatlantic exchange: Charles Browne, P. T. Barnum, and Albert Smith.
Mar 22, 2002; ... This article examines the careers of three mid-century performers, the Americans Charles Browne and P. T. Barnum, and the Englishman Albert Smith. Their appearances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly offer an alternative account of transatlantic cultural exchange to that developed through ...