Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Romantic Spheres of Action 1
5. PART 1. Public Speaking
6. 1. Re-sounding Romanticism: John Thelwall and the Science and Practice of Elocution 21
7. 2. Coleridge the Lecturer, A Disappearing Act 46
8. 3. Wordsworth’s Lament 73
9. 4. Blasphemy Trials and The Cenci: Parody as Performative 100
10. 5. A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Romanticism, and the Tragedy of Human Origin 124
11. PART 2. Body Language
12. 6. Telling Lies with Body Language 149
13. 7. Cross-Dressing and the Performance of Gender in Romantic-Period Comic Plays by Women 178
14. 8. Fox’s Tears: The Staging of Liquid Politics 194
15. 9. Citational Cosmopolitics: Staël, Byron, and the Foreignizing Effect of Cultural Translation 222
16. 10. Captain Barclay’s Performance: Decoding Pedestrianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain 248
17. Works Cited 273
18. Contributors 293
19. Index 297