From Oratory to Debate

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - 1. Rhetoric as political action [Seite 14]
2.1 - 1.1 Oratory and debate as forms of rhetoric [Seite 14]
2.2 - 1.2 The singularity of parliamentary debate [Seite 16]
2.3 - 1.3 Aims, questions and sources [Seite 18]
2.4 - 1.4 The parliamentary variety of deliberative rhetoric [Seite 20]
2.5 - 1.5 The story of parliamentarisation [Seite 23]
3 - 2. The rise of parliamentary eloquence [Seite 28]
3.1 - 2.1 Hegewisch on English parliamentary eloquence [Seite 29]
3.1.1 - 2.1.1 Towards a debating parliament [Seite 29]
3.1.2 - 2.1.2 Parliamentary eloquence after the Glorious Revolution [Seite 32]
3.1.3 - 2.1.3 The elder Pitt as a British Demosthenes [Seite 35]
3.1.4 - 2.1.4 Parliamentary eloquence as a counterweight to majority rule [Seite 36]
3.2 - 2.2 Parliamentary eloquence in the eighteenth century [Seite 39]
3.2.1 - 2.2.1 Parliamentary eloquence in scholarly works [Seite 39]
3.2.2 - 2.2.2 Parliamentary advice-books [Seite 42]
3.3 - 2.3 William Gerard Hamilton's guidebook for debaters [Seite 46]
3.3.1 - 2.3.1 Logic and rhetoric in parliament [Seite 47]
3.3.2 - 2.3.2 The deliberative genre: concepts and audiences [Seite 51]
3.3.3 - 2.3.3 Parliamentary history and procedure [Seite 55]
3.4 - 2.4 Oratory and debate in the eighteenth century [Seite 58]
4 - 3. Outsider perspectives on parliamentary speaking [Seite 64]
4.1 - 3.1 The rise of parliamentary speech collections [Seite 64]
4.1.1 - 3.1.1 The remembrance of great speeches: Chapman, Browne and Hazlitt [Seite 65]
4.1.2 - 3.1.2 Parliamentary eloquence and political liberty [Seite 68]
4.1.3 - 3.1.3 Non-thematisation of debate and procedure [Seite 72]
4.1.4 - 3.1.4 Speech and debate in later collections [Seite 75]
4.1.5 - 3.1.5 Rhetoric and politics in parliamentary speech collections [Seite 79]
4.2 - 3.2 Parliamentary oratory and debate in the school rhetoric [Seite 80]
4.2.1 - 3.2.1 Parliament and debate in the rhetorical introductions [Seite 81]
4.2.2 - 3.2.2 Parliamentary politics in the debate manuals [Seite 88]
4.3 - 3.3 Debate in oratory and oratory in debate [Seite 93]
5 - 4. Insider views on parliamentary rhetoric and debate [Seite 96]
5.1 - 4.1 Parliamentary journalism [Seite 96]
5.1.1 - 4.1.1 Oratory and eloquence [Seite 98]
5.1.2 - 4.1.2 Parliamentary and platform oratory [Seite 101]
5.1.3 - 4.1.3 Quality of debate [Seite 105]
5.1.4 - 4.1.4 Political conditions of debate [Seite 111]
5.2 - 4.2 Parliamentary officials on debate [Seite 118]
5.2.1 - 4.2.1 Oratory and debate in parliamentary politics [Seite 119]
5.2.2 - 4.2.2 Debate under scarce parliamentary time [Seite 122]
5.3 - 4.3 The conceptualisation of parliamentary debate among members [Seite 124]
5.3.1 - 4.3.1 Parliamentary eloquence, oratory and rhetoric in the Hansard [Seite 125]
5.3.2 - 4.3.2 Macaulay and the young Gladstone on parliamentary speaking [Seite 131]
5.3.3 - 4.3.3 Rhetorical reflections of post-reform parliamentarians [Seite 137]
5.3.4 - 4.3.4 Parliament and platform [Seite 139]
5.3.5 - 4.3.5 Parliamentary debating as playing with time [Seite 146]
5.4 - 4.4 Parliamentary debate and deliberative rhetoric [Seite 152]
6 - 5. Political theories of parliamentary deliberation [Seite 156]
6.1 - 5.1 Grote's reinterpretation of ancient Greek rhetorical culture [Seite 158]
6.2 - 5.2 Mill and Bagehot on the limits of rhetoric in parliamentary politics [Seite 163]
6.3 - 5.3 Two rhetorical defences of parliamentary government [Seite 175]
6.4 - 5.4 Rhetorical defences of liberty and novelty [Seite 185]
6.5 - 5.5 Debate as the core of the parliamentary theory of politics [Seite 195]
7 - 6. The Westminster practice of the rhetoric of debate [Seite 198]
7.1 - 6.1 Procedural reforms as contexts of parliamentary self-reflection [Seite 198]
7.2 - 6.2 Deliberation as a topos in the 1882 procedure reform [Seite 200]
7.3 - 6.3 Deliberation as a topos in the 1914 procedure committee [Seite 207]
7.4 - 6.4 Facing the governmentalisation of parliamentary rhetoric [Seite 224]
8 - 7. Parliamentarisation of deliberative rhetoric [Seite 228]
8.1 - 7.1 Parliamentary government and parliamentary rhetoric [Seite 228]
8.2 - 7.2 Rhetoric of debating [Seite 230]
8.3 - 7.3 Four aspects of parliamentary debate [Seite 234]
9 - References [Seite 244]
10 - Index [Seite 258]