The Speaking Muse : Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

new opportunities for interacting with literature for a variety of audiences, including women and marginalized "others,\u0022 while fostering innovations in publication, pedagogy, and performance.Working at the intersection of literary history, performance studies, sound studies, and print history, The Speaking Muse shows that the cultures of declamation and print in the 18th- and 19th-century German-speaking world were not strictly exclusionary, but were intertwined. [Publisher's text]