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The Trial of Warren Hastings: Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England
Chiara Rolli
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Hardcover. The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings dragged on for seven years from 1788 to 1795. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 25. .
The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, the corrupt propraetor of Sicily in the first century BC. In their prosecution, both Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed certain coups de ... Read more
The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, the corrupt propraetor of Sicily in the first century BC. In their prosecution, both Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed certain coups de ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784539221
SKU
V9781784539221
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About Chiara Rolli
Chiara Rolli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Parma, Italy.
Reviews for The Trial of Warren Hastings: Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England
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
Keen attention to material culture anchors the insights of this book...
European Romantic Review
This slender, accessible, but nonetheless ... Read more
British Association of Romantic Studies
Keen attention to material culture anchors the insights of this book...
European Romantic Review
This slender, accessible, but nonetheless ... Read more