Illustrations viii Introduction 1 I Revolution (1789-1798) 22 The ''Revolution Controversy'' 22 Newington Green Circle and Richard Price 25 Mary Wollstonecraft 26 Anna Laetitia Barbauld 29 Abolition Movement 30 Thomas Beddoes, Pneumatic Institution 38 Slave Trade, Opium Trade 41 Elizabeth Montagu and the Bluestockings 47 Helen Maria Williams 51 William Blake 54 Anna Seward 63 Dissenters 64 Historical Nodes 66 Corresponding Societies and Treason Trials 67 Erasmus Darwin 70 Charles Lloyd 72 John Thelwall 74 John Horne Tooke 75 Nonconformists 77 William Blake: Vision and Prophecy 78 George Crabbe 81 Thomas Holcroft 83 Gothic, Domestic Violence, Sadism 92 The Irish Rebellion 99 Coleridge at Cambridge 100 William Frend 101 John Tweddell and James Losh 103 Freedom of the Press 105 Letters of Junius 107 George Dyer 115 Mary Hays 120 Elizabeth Hamilton 127 Mary Robinson 127 Coleridge and Wordsworth 128 Joanna Baillie 136 Maria Edgeworth 139 Charlotte Smith 139 II Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) 158 The French Consulate and Great Britain 158 Coalitions 159 Toussaint L''Ouverture 168 Peace of Amiens 168 The ''Dejection'' Dialogue 171 The Growth of The Prelude 177 Back to Nature 188 Coleridge: Conversation Poems 190 Continental Romanticism 205 Jane Porter 211 Thomas Bewick 213 Moral Causality 214 1805: Connections and Coincidences 215 The Periodical Press 219 Exaltation and Exploitation of the Child 226 The Lecture 229 Lord Byron: ''Fools are my theme, let satire be my song'' 234 The Novel 237 Interconnections: Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, George Crabbe, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld 239 III Riots (1815-1820) 297 Waterloo 297 Corn Laws: Cobbett, Bamford, Wroe, Elliott 309 Lord Byron: Childe Harold''s Pilgrimage Cantos III and IV 313 Lord Byron: Manfred 318 Percy Bysshe Shelley 328 Samuel Rogers 333 Coleridge: Principles of Genial Criticism and Biographia Literaria 334 Coleridge: ''Kubla Khan'' and ''Christabel'' 339 Keats: Networking 349 Keats: Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion 351 Keats: ''Eve of St. Agnes'' and Lamia 353 Keats: The ''Great Odes'' 358 Belatedness 366 Wordsworth, Shelley, Reynolds: Peter Bell , First, Second, Third, and Fourth 367 Wordsworth: Benjamin the Waggoner 375 Cato Street Conspiracy 376 Leigh Hunt 381 March of the Blanketeers 383 Satire and the Gagging Acts 385 Shelley: Mask of Anarchy 388 Beau Brummell 388 Blake: Jerusalem 389 Shelley: Prometheus Unbound 393 IV Reform (1821-1832) 413 Trial of Queen Caroline 413 Shelley, Swellfoot the Tyrant 419 Shelley, Witch of Atlas 425 Byron, Don Juan 427 John Clare, The Village Minstrel 431 De Quincey, Confessions 433 Maria Edgeworth, Tomorrow 435 Charles Lamb: Essayist, Critic, Playwright 439 William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age 447 Deaths: Keats, Napoleon, Shelley, Castlereagh, Byron, Radcliffe 451 Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Improvisatrice 453 Samuel Rogers: Italy 455 George Dyer 457 Mary Russell Mitford, Foscari 458 Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations 466 Panic of 1825 468 Felicia Hemans 470 Thomas Love Peacock, Misfortune of Elphin (1829) 472 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death''s Jest Book 475 Parliamentary Reform 478 Abolition 478 Deaths: Blake, Hazlitt, Scott, Goethe, Coleridge Crabbe, Lamb, Thelwall 479 Conclusion 489 Index 492.