Cultural Politics in the 1790s

ANDREW McCANN teaches in the English Department at the University of Queensland.

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Literature and the Public Sphere in the 1790s Edmund Burke's Immortal Law: Reading the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1788 William Godwin and the Pathological Public Sphere: Theorizing Communicative Action in the 1790s Politico-Sentimentality: John Thelwall, Literary Production and the Critique of Capital in the 1790s Gothic Consumption: Populism Consumerism and the Discipline of Reading Domestic Revolutions: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Limits of Radical Sentimentality Conjugal Love and the Enlightenment Subject: the Colonial Context of Non-identity in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda Index

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