Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction: Historiography and Method 1
5. 1. John Almon: More Than a Bookseller 37
6. 2. Reading the Letter: A (Short) Chapter of Its Own 76
7. 3. Inventing Postcolonialism: Burke’s and Barry’s Paradise Lost and Regained 99
8. 4. The Meaning of Names: Thompson’s Marvell and the Whigs 139
9. 5. The Two Snuffboxes: Recovering the Whig in Reynolds 163
10. 6. Thomas Erskine: The Great Defender 201
11. 7. Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards: William Wordsworth's Revisionism 238
12. Notes 257
13. Index 277