Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index.
Contents
Conservative contexts : Joseph Townsend's dissertation on the poor laws -- Radical contexts : Thomas Paine's Rights of man -- "The pen that might work wonders" : the correspondence of Hannah More -- Two sides of a question : Hannah More's village politics and Josiah Wedgwood's address to the young inhabitants of the pottery -- Social and political circumstances : More's cheap repository tracts -- Economic circumstances : More's cheap repository tracts -- Conclusion. The power of the printed word : Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft on reading.
