Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the repressive 1790s -- Plots discovered : Coleridge, Godwin, and the 1795 gagging acts -- Close confinement : John Thelwall and the romantic prison -- "Hell broth" : the trials of Benjamin Flower -- "By force, or openly, what could be done" : Godwin, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and the gagging acts novel -- "I cannot tell" : Wordsworth's gagging acts -- Epilogue : Wordsworth and the death of Pitt.
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