Resumen de John Walker: the “mechanical” man revisited
This article reexamines the traditional view that John Walker founded the “mechanical” school of elocution. It points out that there were already strong formalistic influences in the elocutionary movement prior to the time of Walker. It also establishes Walker's role as that of a synthesizer rather than an originator of elocutionary theory. Finally, it suggests that the dichotomy between “mechanical” and “natural” elocution was not distinct enough to justify labeling one man as being clearly in one school and another man clearly in the other.
