1. Introduction / Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest -- 2. Parts of the body/parts of speech: some instances of dismemberment and healing / David Punter -- 3. Reflections of excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution and monstrosity / Fred Botting -- 4. Pantisocracy and the politics of the 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads / Nigel Leask -- 5. Liberty trees and loyal oaks: emblematic presences in some English poems of the French Revolutionary period / William Ruddick -- 6. Radical sensibility in the 1790s / Chris Jones -- 7. Crabbe's regicide households / Gavin Edwards -- 8. From terror to terror: Dickens, Carlyle and cannibalism / Angus Easson -- 9. 'My own mind is my own church': Blake, Paine and the French Revolution / David Bindman -- 10. 'David's Brickdust' and the rise of the British school / William Vaughan -- 11. Spectacular fears and popular arts: a view from the nineteenth century / Claudine Mitchell
12. Breaking the code: interpreting French Revolutionary iconoclasm / Richard Wrigley
Analysis
English literature Romanticism
Notes
Papers from a conference held at the University of Leicester in July 1989