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Cuckoldry And The “Gone For A Soldier” Narrative: Infidelity And Performance Among Eighteenth-Century English Plebeians, Elias Hubbard
Cuckoldry And The “Gone For A Soldier” Narrative: Infidelity And Performance Among Eighteenth-Century English Plebeians, Elias Hubbard
Lawrence University Honors Projects
This project addresses existing historical arguments about the role of performance in eighteenth-century English plebeian infidelity cases, identifying some of the cultural scripts available to married men and women from popular texts in order to better understand cases of infidelity in contemporary plebeian marriages. The thesis seeks to clarify the effect of infidelity on a plebeian individual’s social standing and relationships, and to draw conclusions about the nature of plebeian infidelity, marriage, and gender in England through the long eighteenth century.
While examining contemporary public texts of cuckoldry, I address how homosocial behavior appears in narratives of cuckoldry, how the …
Reconsidering George Whitefield At 300, Kyle Roberts
Reconsidering George Whitefield At 300, Kyle Roberts
History: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A review of Thomas S. Kidd's George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father and Jessica M. Parr's Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making and a Religious Icon written by Kyle Roberts.