Description: Trial of Warren Hastings : Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England, Paperback by Rolli, Chiara, ISBN 1350190624, ISBN-13 9781350190627, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 théâtre – such as fainting for emphasis – advised by Cicero and the later Roman rhetorician Quintilian, whose style of spectacular justice played particularly well amid the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental drama. Burke's defence of natural rights and passion for extirpating vice in the colonies similarly reflected an admiration for Cicero, just as Hastings' preference to rule the conquered by means of their own traditions recalled models of Roman provincial administration. Using contemporary journalism, satire and other ephemera, th reconstructs the public's equally profound grasp of these parallels. It illuminates new aspects of early British discourse around the Empire, and shows how deeply classical precedents influenced the cultural and political imaginations of eighteenth-century Britain.
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Book Title: Trial of Warren Hastings : Classical Oratory and Reception in Eig
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Trial of Warren Hastings : Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Ancient / Rome, General, Rhetoric, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Chiara Rolli
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Law, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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