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"""Twisting the lion's tail"": The persistence of anglophobia in American politics, 1921-1948"
… in American political discourse. Anti-British invective, whether directed against the empire, the monarchy, the aristocracy, or even against Americans suspected of harboring pro-English sympathies, would remain an important determinant of U.S. foreign policy well into the 1940s. It is the …
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Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
… away (Chapter 1). All through the Reformation, invective diatribes against Purgatory can be found on stage at the same time that contemporary playwrights are employing Purgatory in ways that connect it to expiation of sin and suffering for love (Chapters 3 and 4). In many instances, ideas about …
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Polemic and episcopal authority in fourth-century Christianity
… the social role of ceremonial, panegyric and invective in the Roman empire; the second chapter examines the Christian construction of an image of the emperor Constantius II as the archetypal tyrant and persecutor; the third argues that these writers laid claim to charismatic authority by …
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Verbal Aggression Across Cultures: A Classroom Assessment
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