It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read The Art of Eloquence by Matthew Bevis
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'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873). The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they and their publics conceived the relations between political speech and literary endeavour. Drawing on a wide range of sources - classical rhetoric, Hansard, newspaper reports, elocutionary manuals, treatises on crowd theory - this book argues that oratorical...
The Art of Eloquence by Matthew Bevis is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read The Art of Eloquence aloud.
The Art of Eloquence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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