Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830

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Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Sick of Politics
	DISAFFECTION, POLITICS, LITERATURE
	INSTABILITY, CRISIS, REVOLUTION
	LITERATURE ON THE SHORES OF POLITICS
	LITERARY FORM AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
	THE ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK
1: Disaffected Parties, 1688–1832
	‘POLITICKS’! 1688 AND THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ESTRANGEMENT
	SATIRE AND CYNICISM: FROM THE MAKING OF SWIFT TO THE FALL OF WALPOLE (1714–42)
	‘ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTIES ELECTRIFIED’: STRUCTURES OF POLITICAL FEELING AT THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I I I
	THEATRICAL INTERLUDE: A WORD TO THE WISE (1770)
	POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC FEELINGS: GOVERNANCE IN EGERIA (1802–3)
2: Tristram Shandy and the Divided Worlds of Politics
	‘MY PEN I ’VE SPLINTER’D QUITE’: STERNE AND THE POLITICS OF PARTY
	TAKING SIDES: LAUNCHING TRISTRAM SHANDY
	‘HEARTY LAUGHING SUBJECTS’? CONSIDERING SHANDEISM
	‘UTOPIA! WHERE THE DEVIL’S THAT?’
	‘HEARTY LAUGHING (POLITICAL) SUBJECTS’? SHANDEISM RECONSIDERED
3: Literary Leviathans: Johnson, Boswell, and the 1790s
	THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORITYIN THE JOHNSON CIRCLE
	JOHNSON’S ERRATIC TORYISM
	LEVIATHAN IN THE 1790S: WILD DEMOCRATS AND WAYWARD PREROGATIVES
	BOSWELL’S ‘WARM’ TORYISM
	THE LITERARY LEVIATHAN? WRANGLING THE LIFE OF JOHNSON
4: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland’s Discontents
	WOMEN, POLITICS, AND THE NOVEL
	IRELAND’S DISCONTENTS
	BURKE’S PARTIES
	ABSENT FRIENDS: ‘MAJESTIC’ POLITICIANS AND ‘WRETCHED TENANTS’
	PARTIAL SPECTATORS IN THE ABSENTEE
5: Austen and the Cultural Logic of Late Toryism
	‘THE SCEPTER, NOW TRANSFERR’D’: POWER AND PREROGATIVE REVISITED
	WILLIAM PITT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FEELING TORY
	MASTERS AND SERVANTS: THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORITY IN MANSFIELD PARK
		‘HE MUST NOT HEAD MOBS’: NATIONAL ORDER AND THE NOVEL
		AUSTEN’S WILFUL HEROINES
6: Byron’s Opposition
	THE SHADOW OF OPPOSITION: BYRON AND THE ‘DEVIL’S PARTY’
	BYRONIC, IRONIC, DISAFFECTED
	UNSHACKLED JUNIUS
	BYRON’S CYNICISM
	THE TRUTH IN POLITICS
Conclusion
Works Cited
	ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS
	PUBLISHED MATERIAL
Index