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Book SynopsisShedding new light on the careers of many of the most important figures of the Victorian era and beyond, including Gladstone, Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, John Bright, Joseph Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and Canon Liddon, the book traces the ways in which oratory came to occupy a central position in the conception and practice of Victorian public life.
Trade ReviewInformative and well written. English Historical Review Imaginative and well-researched... pioneering. Choice So good that it is extraordinary that it has not been written before. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 This is an interesting study and raises many valuable points. History This is an extremely welcome book, which will enlighten its readers on a quite scandalously neglected aspect of ninteenth-century British culture... [T]his is a book which should be read by all who are interested in the cultural history of nineteenth century Britain. -- Martin Hewitt European Review of History
Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Schools for Public Speaking 2. The House of Commons 3. Religion 4. Law 5. The Platform Notes Bibliography Index
