Thomas N. Corns

First published in 1987, The Literature of Controversy is a collection of essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, and Australia on major works from a classic epoch of English controversial prose.

Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction 2. Milton's Aeropagitica: Liberty for the Sects 3. Richard Overton's Marpriest Tracts: Towards a History of Leveller Style 4. How to be a Literary Reader of Hobbes' Most Famous Chapter 5. Something to the Purpose: Marvell's Rhetorical Strategy in The Rehearsal Transpros'd 6. The Autobiographer as Apologist: Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) 7. Defoe's Shortest Way with Dissenters: Irony, Intention and Reader-Response 8. "In the case of David": Swift's Drapier's Letters 9. Junius and the Grafton Administration, 1768-1770