Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture

Our latest issue, 'Performing Identities in a Mediatised Age', has just bee published in open access: tinyurl.com/52r4pnv7 🔓 Edited by Martin Procházka & Ondřej Pilný, it brings together essays from a conference held at @charlesuni.cuni.cz in 2025 as part of the project 'CoRe: Beyond Security.'

From our latest issue on 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': 'Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe' by Stephanie O'Rourke (@arthistorysta.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-5/

From our latest issue: “Radical Reform and the Shock of the Past in Mary Robinson’s Vancenza” by @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social (Birkbeck, University of London). Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From our latest issue: “‘Deep the Raven Wades in Gore:’ Death Songs and the Norse-Gothic Spectacle” by @sharonchoe.bsky.social (University of Copenhagen). 🔓 Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From our latest issue: “Revolutionary Shocks in Translation: Political and Linguistic Change in the Discourse of Radical Translators (1789-1815)” by Rosa Mucignat (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-2/

Our current issue "Romantic Shock and Surprise", edited by David Duff and Laurent Folliot, examines "manifestations of aesthetic shock and surprise across a broad spectrum of Romantic literature from Britain and beyond." 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-1/

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From LP 68: "'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode" by Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-10/

From LP 68: 'Blake's Public Addresses' by David Duff (Queen Mary University of London). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-9/

From LP 68: 'Poetic/Rhetorical Ethos and the Performative Power of Words in the 'French' Books of The Prelude' by Catherine Bois (Université Paris Nanterre), examining The Prelude in the context of eighteenth-century rhetoric. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-8/

The new LP issue has arrived: 'Romantic Shock and Surprise,' edited by David Duff (Queen Mary University of London) and Laurent Folliot @sorbonne-universite.fr. Université Cover design by Karolína Bendová. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025...

In our latest issue: "'Religion’s firm-rooted truths': Richard Polwhele, Pulpit Oratory and Loyalist Romanticism in the English Province" by Dafydd Moore @plymuni.bsky.social. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-7/

From our latest issue: "'The spouting rant of high-toned exclamation': The Art of Oral/Aural Caricature in Paine’s Rights Of Man" by Pierre Lurbe (@sorbonne-universite.fr). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-5/

In our latest issue: 'La voix de la girouette: The French Connections of John Thelwall’s Elocutionary Theory' by Judith Thompson (@dalhousie.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access:
litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-4/

In our latest issue: 'Toasting, Oratory and Parody in Britain during the French Revolution' by Rémy Duthille (Université Bordeaux Montaigne). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-3/

From the latest LP issue on 'Oaths, Odes and Orations': 'How to Do Things with Oaths: Militancy and Loyalty in the French Revolutions' by Francesco Buscemi @francescobuscemi.bsky.social, University of Groningen @rug.nl. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-2/

The latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture on 'Oaths, Odes and Oration', co-edited by David Duff and Marc Porée. 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2024... @bars.bsky.social

In LP 67, David Livingstone discusses Brendan Behan’s singing, focusing on his most well-known recording of Irish folk songs and ballads. Read 'Rowdy and Rough: Brendan Behan Sings Songs from The Hostage' in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-67-9/ 🔓

Using drafts of The Quare Fellow as a case study, James Little draws attention to the collaboration between Brendan Behan and Pike Theatre co-founder Carolyn Swift, whose major dramaturgical contributions have thus far been downplayed. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-67-8/ 🔓

In LP 67, Klára Witzany Hutková highlights parallels and contrasts between Brendan Behan and Maeve Brennan's work. Her essay 'Irony, Trauma, and Compassion: Brendan Behan’s and Maeve Brennan’s Mid-century Short Prose' is available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-67-7/ 🔓

In “’A splendid figure of revolting womanhood’: The Women of Brendan Behan’s Short Fiction”, Nathalie Lamprecht @paradisecitygal.bsky.social focuses on Behan’s female characters. Read the full essay in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-67-6/

LP 68: 'Oaths, Odes and Orations', edited by David Duff & Marc Porée. Essays by Francesco Buscemi, Rémy Duthille, Judith Thompson, Pierre Lurbe, Robert W. Jones, Dafydd Moore, Catherine Bois, David Duff, and Paul Hamilton. 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2024...