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The Politics of Elocution in The Female American

 

Notes

1 Cohen’s Sensible Words analyzes an array of eighteenth-century rhetorical treatises and briefly comments on their effect on literary representations. For a more extensive analysis of the relationship between eighteenth-century theories of acoustic experience and novels, see Amit Yahav’s “Sonorous Duration: Tristram Shandy and the Temporality of Novels.”

2 From the title page of Sheridan’s British Education. All other quotations from this work are cited as BE.

3 From Sheridan’s A Course of Lectures on Elocution, xii. All other quotations from this work are cited as CL.

4 On Samuel Whyte’s relationship with Sheridan and his theories, see Benzie 19.

5 For an analysis of the postcolonial possibilities of Unca Eliza as a figuration of the in-between, see Betty Joseph’s “Re(playing) Crusoe/Pocahantas: Circum-Atlantic Stagings in The Female American.”

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