Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution

Adrian J. Wallbank

Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute

Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution

Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period. He argues that dialogue often adopted a didactic stance explicitly geared towards making an argument sound persuasive, and demonstrates its influence in the development of such innovations as the realist novel, philosophical perspectivism and the advent of psychoanalysis.

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Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute

Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

CONTENTS
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction: Theory and Practice
pp 1-14

1 - Loyalist and Radical Dialogues of the Revolution Controversy: The ‘Ambiguities’ of ‘Popular Address’
pp 15-52

2 - ‘I am like that House or Kingdom divided against itself, of which I have read somewhere in the Holy Scriptures’: Psychological Disunity, Mentoring from the Heart, and Literary Innovation: Evangelical Dialogues, 1795–1801
pp 53-86

3 - Religious ‘Enthusiasm’ and ‘Practical’ Mentoring: Dialogic Responses to the Blagdon Controversy
pp 87-122

4 - Education and Philosophical Persuasion: The Dialogues of Dr Alexander Thomson and Sir Uvedale Price
pp 123-154

6 - Conversation and ‘Enlightened Philosophy’: The ‘Dialectical Comedies’ of Thomas Love Peacock and Imaginary Conversations (1824–9) of Walter Savage Landor
pp 187-216

Postscript
pp 217-218

Notes
pp 219-256

Works Cited
pp 257-280

Index
pp 281-287

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