Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Spirits of the Age
  • 1. The Purgatorial Politics of the Catholic Question
  • 2. History, Sympathy and Sectarianism in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story
  • 3. Wordsworth and Superstition
  • 4. Shelley's Conflicted Campaign for Catholic Emancipation
  • 5. Scott's Ivanhoe and the Saxon Question
  • Conclusion: 'The Anxious Hour' - England in 1829
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index