Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367224899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 284 str.

Yvonne Fuentes; Mark R. Malin

Opis

This edited collection of essays focuses on the topic of protest during the Enlightenment of the long eighteenth century (roughly 1670-1833).

Spis treści

Introduction They Were Warned, and yet They Persisted ; Part I: Obnoxious, Disorderly, and Defiant: Reaction and Counterreaction ; 1. "So Many People of all Sorts Rose in Opposition": Examining the Diversity of Participants in Colonial Crowd Action ; 2. "The Sovereign Right of Thinking": Opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts in Song ; 3. Liberty Poles and the Contested Right of Protest in America’s Founding Era ;4. The American Founders against Protest: Non-Violent Farmers, Political Theology, and the Fabrication of Shays’s Rebellion ; Part II: The Rhetoric of Protest: The Imbrication of Literature and Social Protest ; 5. Staging Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Theater. The Case of Merope between Republicanism and Absolutism ; 6. The Marquis de Sade and Twisted Political Protest ;  7. The Rhetoric of Protest in the Satirical Works of Cadalso and Jovellanos ; Part III: Taxes, Tariffs, and Trade Wars: Resisting Unpopular Policies ; 8. The Hancocks’ Tea Trade and Origins of the American Revolution ; 9. "The basis of Alienation will never be healed": The Historicity of Protest in Ezra Stiles’ Stamp Act Notebook ; 10. "The War of Nullification": Imagining Disunion in South Carolina 1828-1833 ; 11. Hunger, Protest, and the Madrid Famine of 1811: Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War and José Aparicio’s El año del hambre de Madrid ; Part IV: Images, Oaths, and Hell: Symbolic Acts of Popular Dissidence ; 12. Hell is Over: Poetry and Protest in the Folksong Jarabe Gatuno in Eighteenth Century Mexico ; 13. Oaths and Social Protest in Ireland, 1761-1776, by Kevin Murphy ; 14. Discontented, Disquieting, Disturbing: The Ephemeral as Symbols of Popular Resistance in Spain