2024 (34) 68

Issued: 01 / 2025
Publisher: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta

174 pages

Oaths, Odes and Orations

Introduction
David Duff and Marc Porée, p. 1-9
How to Do Things with Oaths: Militancy and Loyalty in the French Revolutions
Francesco Buscemi, p. 10-27
Toasting, Oratory and Parody in Britain during the French Revolution
Rémy Duthille, p. 28-48
La voix de la girouette: The French Connections of John Thelwall’s Elocutionary Theory
Judith Thompson, p. 49-66
“The spouting rant of high-toned exclamation”: The Art of Oral/Aural Caricature in Paine’s Rights Of Man
Pierre Lurbe, p. 67-80
“An alarming state of affairs”: Rhetoric, Resistance and the Nation in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s Speech of 20 April 1798
Robert W. Jones, p. 81-96
“Religion’s firm-rooted truths”: Richard Polwhele, Pulpit Oratory and Loyalist Romanticism in the English Province
Dafydd Moore, p. 97-112
Poetic/Rhetorical Ethos and the Performative Power of Words in the “French” Books of The Prelude
Catherine Bois, p. 113-130
Blake’s Public Addresses
David Duff, p. 131-150
“Inspiration’s darling child”: The Romantic Ode
Paul Hamilton, p. 151-165
Notes on Contributors
p. 166-169