A study of English literary culture in the period between 1760 and 1830 which explores signs of modern disenchanted attitudes towards politics.

• Preface


• Introduction: Sick of Politics


• 1: Disaffected Parties, 1688-1832


• 2: Tristram Shandy and the Divided Worlds of Politics


• 3: Literary Leviathans: Johnson, Boswell, and the 1790s


• 4: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland's Discontents


• 5: Austen and the Cultural Logic of Late Toryism


• 6: Byron's Opposition


• Conclusion

John Owen Havard is Assistant Professor at Binghamton University and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His articles and essays have appeared in ELH, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Contemporary Literature and in the volumes Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne and Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry. His reviews and review essays have appeared in The Scriblerian, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The New Rambler, and the English Historical Review. He has received fellowships from the British Association for American Studies, the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the NEH.