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tasks were to convey the economic necessity of ending the war and to provide a narrative of the peace negotiations that would diminish the taint of secrecy associated with them. Books One and Three concern “the most important Affairs at Home, during the last Session of Parliament,” whereas Books Two and
war novels written before the peace treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902, e. g. Francis Dodsworth’s Gilbert Logan, V. C. , and Ernest Glanville’s The Despatch Rider (both published in 1900), or Henty’s With Buller in Natal (1900) and With Roberts to Pretoria (1901). While these novels clearly and
cannibalism to popular imagination. With a cardinal sin of civil war, Catiline conspires with foreigners against Rome. Th e Gallic Allobroges eventually betray him and emerge as heroes, but the episode inverts proper relations: the foreigner protects Rome against the internal enemy. A generation later
]), pp. xli, 86. 56 This episode is described in Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises (London, 1686), pp. 402-20, and is cited in Stephen Bull, “The Furie of the Ordnance”: Artillery in the English Civil Wars (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008), p. 31. 57 Defoe, A Journal
detail. There are references to extant family portraits, to some shadowy Irish and English relations, and there is an episode concerning a coat of arms. But the family origins that mattered to Swift were comparatively recent and they were centred on Goodrich, Herefordshire. His father and each of his
is permanently – of any formal and public inquiry into atroci- ties committed during and after the civil war of 1936-39. Spain’s new democracy chose peace over justice, order over the open investigation of the abundant evi- dence on atrocities which – like the underwater sand bars to which we
was the preeminent factor in mobilizing public opinion, non-govern- mental organizations and governments in favor of the adoption of what are now considered to be foundational human rights texts.2 The above account assumes that there existed at the end of the war a shared belief amongst the human
between the star which announces the birth of a new king and promises peace and salvation, and the comet of war and destruction revealing the origin and inevitable downfall of empire. Since Halley’s comet did again appear in 1910, when the Union of South Africa was founded, the apocalyptic vision of
OLGA POLOVINKINA British Modernism and Transatlantic ‘Wars of Independence’ Literary modernism in the Anglophone world, namely Great Britain and the United States of America, for years was considered a kind of undif- ferentiated whole, “supranational movement” (Hugh Kenner), hence the wide
once in brash defiance, To all my arts of money, war and science! Through you we automate the rule of Dunce: Usurp the poet’s role, pre-empt response, Tie up the presses, satisfy the set, Relax the prey, and then we drop the net!«19 I am emphasizing the outsider status of a modern satirist like Nason