"This book explores the burgeoning 18th-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas--particularly oratory, the theatre, and the novel--and charts the efforts o…
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Paul Goring explores the eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. Through innovative readings of Sterne, Richardson and other authors alongside manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the body became an…