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An erudite and wide-ranging study placing Gilbert Austin's Chironomia within its historical context, showing how it fits within the developments in the art of oratory in Britain from the seventeenth century to Austin's own day. The book brings out clearly Austin's innovations. It is a valuable contribution to the history of rhetoric, and it shows the relevance of Austin's work on gesture to contemporary issues in the emerging discipline of 'gesture studies.' - Adam Kendon, author of Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance This book is part history of rhetoric, part history of science, and a complete revision of Gilbert Austin's work, a revision that foregrounds sympathy and movement as integral to bodily communication-and to communication writ large. - Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation

An erudite and wide-ranging study placing Gilbert Austin's Chironomia within its historical context, showing how it fits within the developments in the art of oratory in Britain from the seventeenth century to Austin's own day. The book brings out clearly Austin's innovations. It is a valuable contribution to the history of rhetoric, and it shows the relevance of Austin's work on gesture to contemporary issues in the emerging discipline of 'gesture studies.' --Adam Kendon, author of Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance This book is part history of rhetoric, part history of science, and a complete revision of Gilbert Austin's work, a revision that foregrounds sympathy and movement as integral to bodily communication--and to communication writ large. --Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation

"An erudite and wide-ranging study placing Gilbert Austin’s Chironomia within its historical context, showing how it fits within the developments in the art of oratory in Britain from the seventeenth century to Austin’s own day. The book brings out clearly Austin’s innovations. It is a valuable contribution to the history of rhetoric, and it shows the relevance of Austin’s work on gesture to contemporary issues in the emerging discipline of ‘gesture studies.’"" — Adam Kendon, author of Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance ""This book is part history of rhetoric, part history of science, and a complete revision of Gilbert Austin’s work, a revision that foregrounds sympathy and movement as integral to bodily communication—and to communication writ large."" — Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation"

An erudite and wide-ranging study placing Gilbert Austin's Chironomia within its historical context, showing how it fits within the developments in the art of oratory in Britain from the seventeenth century to Austin's own day. The book brings out clearly Austin's innovations. It is a valuable contribution to the history of rhetoric, and it shows the relevance of Austin's work on gesture to contemporary issues in the emerging discipline of 'gesture studies.' --Adam Kendon, author of Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance This book is part history of rhetoric, part history of science, and a complete revision of Gilbert Austin's work, a revision that foregrounds sympathy and movement as integral to bodily communication--and to communication writ large. --Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation

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Sara Newman is an emeritus professor of English at Kent State University and the author of Writing Disability: A Critical History. Sigrid Streit is an assistant professor of English and the director of writing across the curriculum at the University of Detroit Mercy. She has published research in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.

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