Elocutionary Movement, Eighteen Century

Delivery is one of the important five canons of rhetoric. It has always been  one of the least written about; however, in the nineteenth century, this changed.  Actors and clergymen like the Irishmen, Thomas Sheridan and Gilbert Austin, were in demand as it became fashionable to have one's son learn the art of speaking.
 

It would be an important precursor of the Speech and Communication discipline in the twentieth century.

Last Updated: 08/28/01 , History of Rhetoric II, University of Central Oklahoma. Wayne Stein wstein@ucok.edu.