Stephen Bygrave is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton

• Part I Persecution, toleration and conviction1 ‘Tumultuary proceedings’: the 1791 riots2 ‘Shuffling, misinterpreting, shifting, twisting’: Priestley’s writing3 ‘Gentle and generous proceeding’: tolerationPart II ‘The Age of Experiments’: experiment, metaphor and violence4 ‘The Age of Experiments’: narration, Franklin, phlogiston and metaphor5 ‘Not a shadow of figure’: conviction, Horsley and metaphor6 ‘The wild gas is plainly broke loose’: Burke and mixing discourses7 ‘Fronti nulla fides’: graphic satires8 ‘I burnt all my letters’: Barbauld, gender and metaphor9 ‘What makes you rave so much about gunpowder?’: Incendiary metaphorsPart III ‘Entering upon a new world’: Priestley and prophecy in America10 ‘An appointment from heaven’: traveller, émigré, alien11 ‘Flagitious tyranny’: Gothic Europe and the United States12 ‘Baseless Fabric’: Hinduism, Islam and enlightenment13 The futureConclusionBibliography

Stephen Bygrave is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton

• Part I Persecution, toleration and conviction1 ‘Tumultuary proceedings’: the 1791 riots2 ‘Shuffling, misinterpreting, shifting, twisting’: Priestley’s writing3 ‘Gentle and generous proceeding’: tolerationPart II ‘The Age of Experiments’: experiment, metaphor and violence4 ‘The Age of Experiments’: narration, Franklin, phlogiston and metaphor5 ‘Not a shadow of figure’: conviction, Horsley and metaphor6 ‘The wild gas is plainly broke loose’: Burke and mixing discourses7 ‘Fronti nulla fides’: graphic satires8 ‘I burnt all my letters’: Barbauld, gender and metaphor9 ‘What makes you rave so much about gunpowder?’: Incendiary metaphorsPart III ‘Entering upon a new world’: Priestley and prophecy in America10 ‘An appointment from heaven’: traveller, émigré, alien11 ‘Flagitious tyranny’: Gothic Europe and the United States12 ‘Baseless Fabric’: Hinduism, Islam and enlightenment13 The futureConclusionBibliography

Stephen Bygrave is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton

• Part I Persecution, toleration and conviction1 ‘Tumultuary proceedings’: the 1791 riots2 ‘Shuffling, misinterpreting, shifting, twisting’: Priestley’s writing3 ‘Gentle and generous proceeding’: tolerationPart II ‘The Age of Experiments’: experiment, metaphor and violence4 ‘The Age of Experiments’: narration, Franklin, phlogiston and metaphor5 ‘Not a shadow of figure’: conviction, Horsley and metaphor6 ‘The wild gas is plainly broke loose’: Burke and mixing discourses7 ‘Fronti nulla fides’: graphic satires8 ‘I burnt all my letters’: Barbauld, gender and metaphor9 ‘What makes you rave so much about gunpowder?’: Incendiary metaphorsPart III ‘Entering upon a new world’: Priestley and prophecy in America10 ‘An appointment from heaven’: traveller, émigré, alien11 ‘Flagitious tyranny’: Gothic Europe and the United States12 ‘Baseless Fabric’: Hinduism, Islam and enlightenment13 The futureConclusionBibliography