III. Reform or Ruin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface 1964 VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Contents XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The Eighteenth Century
7. I. Hardy Recusants 9
8. II. A Decade of Innovations 1780 - 1790 40
9. III. Reform or Ruin 68
10. Part Two: 1800 - 1830
11. IV. Toward a New Opinion 103
12. V. The Societies 120
13. VI. The Model Female 139
14. VII. The Improvement of The Masses 160
15. VIII. Changing Taste and Temperament 179
16. IX. Censors and Reformers 202
17. X. Censors and Expurgators 223
18. Part Three: 1820 - 1830
19. XI. Victorianism 253
20. Bibliography 281
21. Index 285