Ending the War and Making the Peace: The Literary Languages of Public Controversy in 1713

Editor’s Note. In addition to Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock’s The Culture of Contention: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Public Controversy about the Ending of the War of the Spanish Succession, 1710-1713 (1997) mentioned at the end of the Preface, see Jeffrey Hopes, “La Poésie de guerre au XVIIIe siècle,” BSEAA 44 (1997): 37-59. The War of the Spanish Succession, in which the English and the Dutch were allied in a long struggle to prevent a union of the French and Spanish monarchies, began in 1702,..