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Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. The Groundwork of Change""; ""Eighteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory""; ""Practical Awareness""; ""The Chapters and a Definition""; ""A Note on Notes""; ""PART I. THREATS TO THE SPECIES: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution""; ""Chapter 1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred: Savage Beasts Mortal and Deadly""; ""Conjuring Up Reasons: Original Sin, Fragile Connections, Church and State""; ""Aristocratic Historiography: Advocacy and Resistance""; ""Metaphorical Enhancements: Floods, Propagation, Legions, and Dutch Treats"" ""Chapter 2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe�s Shortest Way with the Dissenters""""Madness""; ""Root and Branch""; ""Defoe�s Shortest Way, Sacheverell�s Political Union, and Religious Conflict""; ""The Shortest Way: The Bible and Other Clues beyond the Obvious""; ""Response and Judgment""; ""Defoe as a Character of His Own Creation""; ""PART II. TAKING THE CURE AND IMPROVING THE SPECIES: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists""; ""Chapter 3. The Thirtieth of January Sermon: From Extermination to Inclusion""; ""The Thirtieth of January Sermon and Royalist Law"" ""The High Church Response and the Beginning of Change""""Higher Church and Moderate Responses to the High Church Response""; ""Raising the Decibels in a Lowered Church""; ""State, Not Church""; ""God�s Hand, William�s Hand, and the Divine Right of Government""; ""Retrospective""; ""Chapter 4. “Compel Them to Come In,� Luke 14:23: From Persecution to Persuasion; Against Augustinian Compulsion""; ""Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Response and Rage""; ""Contexts Changed and Augustine Charged""; ""Happy Had His Works Not Been Preserved""; ""Persuade Them to Come In"" ""Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth: Equiano�s Conversion""""Chapter 5. Methodism: From Antagonist to Relation""; ""The Spreading Fog""; ""Reforming the Reformation? Reforming Reform?""; ""Grudging Acceptance""; ""Humphry Clinker: Joining the Family""; ""PART III. EVOLUTIONARY REVERSION: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure""; ""Chapter 6. Déjà Vu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial""; ""Repeal, No Popery, and the Gordon Riots: Destruction and the Puritan Redivivus"" ""Renovating the Language of Cultural Regress""""Church, State, and Political Causation""; ""Strategies of Defense and Alternative Responses""; ""“What Is to Depose the Sword?�: The Return to Order; Debate, Arrest, Trial, and Consequences""; ""The Trial of Lord George Gordon for Treason, 1781""; ""Chapter 7. A Very Near Thing: State Terrorism, the Fury of the Aggrieved, and Incompatibility with the Safety of Millions""; ""A River Too Far""; ""The Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786�1787, and Excommunication"" ""The Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786�1787: Libeling France and Britain"" |
