Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Seeing is believing: performing reform in Colley Cibber's Love's last shift -- Sincerity as spectacle: Susanna Centlivre's The gamester and George Farquhar's The inconstant -- Reforming the reformer: female gaze and rake reform in Colley Cibber's The careless husband and The lady's last stake -- Jokes and party strokes: whig ideology and wife-reform in Richard Steele's The tender husband and Charles Johnson's The masquerade -- Horns, whores, and happy marriages: reforming jealousy in Charles Johnson's The generous husband and Benjamin Hoadly's The suspicious husband -- Afterword.
