2024 (34) 68

Issued: 01 / 2025
Publisher: Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Language: English / ISSN: 2571-452X
174 pages

Oaths, Odes and Orations Introduction David Duff (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) and Marc Porée (École Normale Supérieure France), p. 1-9 How to Do Things with Oaths: Militancy and Loyalty in the French Revolutions Francesco Buscemi (University of Groningen, Netherlands), p. 10-27 Toasting, Oratory and Parody in Britain during the French Revolution Rémy […]

Oaths, Odes and Orations

Introduction
David Duff (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) and Marc Porée (École Normale Supérieure France), p. 1-9
How to Do Things with Oaths: Militancy and Loyalty in the French Revolutions
Francesco Buscemi (University of Groningen, Netherlands), p. 10-27
Toasting, Oratory and Parody in Britain during the French Revolution
Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux Montaigne University, France), p. 28-48
La voix de la girouette: The French Connections of John Thelwall’s Elocutionary Theory
Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University and University of King’s College, Canada), p. 49-66
“The spouting rant of high-toned exclamation”: The Art of Oral/Aural Caricature in Paine’s Rights Of Man
Pierre Lurbe (Sorbonne University, France), 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 (University of Leeds, United Kingom), p. 81-96
“Religion’s firm-rooted truths”: Richard Polwhele, Pulpit Oratory and Loyalist Romanticism in the English Province
Dafydd Moore (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom), p. 97-112
Poetic/Rhetorical Ethos and the Performative Power of Words in the “French” Books of The Prelude
Catherine Bois (Paris Nanterre University, France), p. 113-130
Blake’s Public Addresses
David Duff (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), p. 131-150
“Inspiration’s darling child”: The Romantic Ode
Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), p. 151-165
Notes on Contributors
p. 166-169