Chiara Rolli (Italy University of Parma)

The Trial of Warren Hastings

Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings dragged on for seven years from 1788 to 1795.

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Produktdetails

• Criminal Practice Series
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781784539221
• ISBN-10: 1784539228
• Artikelnr.: 46601881

Autorenporträt

Chiara Rolli is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Parma, Italy. She also belongs to the Classical Reception Studies Network.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 - Cicero, Verres and the Classics in Eighteenth-Century Britain
2 - A Clash of Characters
3 - Classical Oratory and Theatricality in the Trial against Warren Hastings
4 - Spectacles of Passion: Cicero's In Verrem and Burke's "Speech on the Opening of the Impeachment"
5 - The Reception of the Hastings Trial in the Newspapers and Satirical Prints

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

An abundant resource for scholars and students of classical reception and its influence on political and imperial rhetoric in eighteenth-century England ... Rolli gives sparkling life to the world of the trial. British Association of Romantic Studies