Revolution Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...was extensive from 1794 to 1796 and again from 1799 to 1801 [ see *famine ], and from 1795 there were riots as new regulations for registering for the militia were put into practice. When the first Scottish Militia Act ( 1797 ) was implemented, widespread protest flared up throughout Scotland. In 1797 there were *naval mutinies in Nore and Spithead, allegedly fuelled by London Corresponding Society literature, and there was an agreed policy of subversion of the army among some cells of the United Englishmen—the English counterpart to the United...
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...improvised, survivalist existence of the poor. There were occasions when the collective protest of the men resembled any crowd action of the time, as a conflict of popular beliefs and expectations against the demands of social superiors. Without the backing of the Mutiny Act, volunteer officers depended on their social authority and force of personality to impose military order. The volunteers never managed to span the yawning gulf in British society between the military and the civilian. Neither the army nor the militia drew more than a tiny...
Billy Budd
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
John Quincy Adams
Maryland Gazette, The Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...contributions were an allegory, “The Plain Dealer,” which took a conservative point of view regarding constitutional liberty, and a Defoe-like letter purporting to be by a South Carolina gentleman reporting a mutiny by mulattoes. The paper was revived by Jonas Green ( 1745–65 ), and then was suspended because of hostility toward the Stamp Act. In 1766 it was revived, and was continued by Green and his family until superseded by St. Mary's...
Billy Budd Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...and beauty is hated by Claggart, a dark, demon-haunted petty officer. In his simplicity, Billy cannot understand why Claggart should hate him, why evil should desire to destroy good. Claggart concocts a fantastic story of mutiny, supposedly plotted by Billy, whom he accuses to the captain. Billy, unable to speak, in his only act of rebellion strikes Claggart a fatal blow. Captain Vere, who sympathizes with Billy and recognizes his essential innocence, is nevertheless force to condemn him, and though Billy is hanged he lives on as a legend among...
Benito Cereno Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...uneasy at the insubordination of the slaves and the careless seamanship and seeming ingratitude of Cereno. He is about to return to his ship when Cereno jumps into his boat, precipitating an attack by the Negroes from which they barely escape. Cereno explains that the blacks had mutinied, led by Babo, and wanted to be carried to Africa. Delano seizes the slave ship, and takes it with his own to Lima, where Babo is executed. Cereno enters a monastery, but soon...
Wallenstein Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
...fourth act, in which officers faithful to Wallenstein seek signatures from the generals at a drunken carouse, and the fifth, in which Octavio reveals to Max his counter-conspiratorial plans. In Wallensteins Tod , Wallenstein, urged on by Gräfin Terzky , overcomes his hesitation and, too late, opts for revolt. His plans to seize Prague are forestalled by Octavio, and the troops on which he had relied melt away into the darkness. Amid scenes of mutiny he removes from Pilsen to Eger with a handful of faithful regiments. Max Piccolomini falls, in an act of...
Bertram, James Reference library
Paul Millar
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
...to spend the year in China . There he scored a major journalistic coup by witnessing the Xian incident: where officers kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek to compel him to respond to Japanese aggression. He recorded this experience in Crisis in China: The Story of the Sian Mutiny ( 1937 ; rpt. as First Act in China , New York, 1938 ). Around the same time he helped smuggle Zhou Enlai's wife out of Beijing ahead of Japanese troops. In 1937 , shortly after the Red Army's Long March, he became the first official ‘British’ visitor to interview Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai,...
Faulkner (Originally Falkner), William [Harrison] Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...boy. Requiem for a Nun ( 1951 ), a sequel to Sanctuary, combines the forms of play and novel to treat the tortured redemption of Temple Drake. A Fable ( 1954 , Pulitzer Prize) is a lengthy parable of the Passion of Christ set in a framework of false armistice and actual mutiny in World War I. The Town ( 1957 ) carries on the story of the white trash Flem Snopes and his coming to Jefferson, while The Mansion ( 1960 ) concludes the Snopes story by treating the family in the first half of the 20th century. The Reivers ( 1962 , Pulitzer Prize),...
Faulkner (originally Falkner), William (Harrison) (1897–1962) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.)
...a white boy. Requiem for a Nun (1951), a sequel to Sanctuary , combines the forms of play and novel to treat the tortured redemption of Temple Drake. A Fable (1954, Pulitzer Prize) is a lengthy parable of the Passion of Christ set in a framework of false armistice and actual mutiny in World War I. The Town (1957) carries on the story of the white Flem Snopes and his coming to Jefferson, while The Mansion (1960) concludes the Snopes story by treating the family in the first half of the twentieth century. The Reivers (1962, Pulitzer Prize), published...
Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
... North Star and its successors, Frederick Douglass's Paper and Frederick Douglass's Monthly, in print from 1847 to 1863 . One of the literary highlights of the newspaper was a novella, “The Heroic Slave ,” which Douglass wrote in March 1853 . Based on an actual slave mutiny, “The Heroic Slave” is regarded as the first work of long fiction in African American literature. A rupture of the close relationship between Douglass and Garrison occasioned a period of reflection and reassessment that culminated in Douglass's second autobiography, My Bondage...
Autobiography: White Women during the Civil War Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
...after day, able to attain small Confederate flags, despite being held in prison. In another scene, she describes raising a contraband Confederate flag while being escorted with a group of prisoners into a Baltimore jail. This incident is treated more as a prank than as outright mutiny, however; Boyd remains a prisoner, and Baltimore remains within the Union. Such scenes occurred more frequently in Southern women's writing because most of the battles were fought in Confederate territory, but Northern women also relied on the power of their flag's symbolic...
Hayden, Robert Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
...Library's Schomburg Collection in Harlem during the summer of 1941 . Hayden would often use several voices in a single poem. They served as dramatis personae comparable to a collection of monologues. Middle Passage is a prime instance of this, for it dramatizes the Amistad mutiny of 1839 from the vantages of several “voices” who, through eyewitness accounts, depositions, ship's logs, and journal entries, recount the horrors and heroism of that experience. The poet gives utterance to the rebel leader Cinque as well as slave traders, hymn singers, and...
Lewis, Sinclair Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
...to the fold. Although Babbitt is a failed rebel (like Carol Kennicott), Lewis shows he is inwardly changed and views the world with a hard-won skepticism that may be the beginning of thinking for himself, which is Lewis's prescription for his malaise. When his son, Ted, mounts a mutiny of his own by getting married, Babbitt tells the young man he will stand by him and urges him to do what he truly wants to do, something the father never could. As the novelist John O'Hara noted, many writers had identified the idea of Babbittry, but Lewis personified it in a...
Boucicault, Dion Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
...oncoming train. Borrowed from Under the Gaslight ( 1867 ) by the American Augustin Daly , and removed to the new London Underground, it had litigious consequences as well as cinematic posterity. Seizing on other contemporary subjects, Boucicault turned out a play on the Indian Mutiny, Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Lucknow ( 22 February 1858 ), which opened only three months after the title event; and he turned out another invoking issues of slavery and racism that opened fortuitously four days after John Brown's execution. In the latter, The Octoroon;...
Gondal saga Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...from his mossy bed as the authors approach. Further, when Charlotte had grown tired of the Islanders' Play (recorded by her in vol. 2, October 1829 ), it was Emily who took the lead, initiating the School Rebellion which looks forward to a central theme of Gondal. There is mutiny at the Palace of Instruction and the ringleaders are her characters, ‘little Johnny Lockhart’ and Princess Victoria ( see victoria, queen ). Eventually, Charlotte's hero, the Duke of Wellington, quells the rebellion with a single autocratic threat. The concept of a female...
Adventure Books Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
...The empire over which Queen Victoria reigned in 1897 was four times greater than at her accession sixty years earlier. Improvements in communications and cheaper newspapers made the public more aware of such dramatic events as the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Indian Mutiny, and the explorations of such men as Dr. Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton intensified the interest in adventures overseas. About this time, too, hundred of thousands of Britons began to emigrate to America, Australia, Canada, and parts of Africa. Many children shared their...
Censorship Reference library
Nicole Moore
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...Customs Act first prohibited the importation of “books and drawings of an immoral or indecent character”; 44 in 1853 , Britain’s Customs Consolidation Act incorporated express prohibitions on obscene or indecent articles, formalizing cordons sanitaires against immorality from elsewhere. Michael Roberts noted the coincidence of debate of the 1857 Obscene Publications Act in the English House of Lords with the arrival of news of the Indian Mutiny two days later. 45 Regimes of regulation all over the British Empire were bolstered by this act and by the...
