Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

Yvonne Fuentes is Associate Professor of Spanish at University of West Georgia. She authored El triángulo sentimental en el drama del siglo dieciocho (1999); Mártires y anticristos: Análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España (2006); and coedited Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes (2006).Mark R. Malin is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at Randolph-Macon College. He has presented and published on eighteenth-century literature, with a particular interest in the novel and specifically the Spanish epistolary novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among other publications, he authored a critical edition of Estanislao de Cosca Vayo’s Voyleano, o exaltación de las pasiones (2007).

• 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