ABSTRACT
This book focuses on the literature produced at the time of the controversy over Wilkes and the Middlesex elections and by the debate in England over the French Revolution. Writings by Junius, Johnson, Burke, Paine, Mackintosh, Wollstonecraft and Arthur Young among others are examined in order to identify and estimate the effectiveness of the persuasive techniques used by these writers to communicate ideas to their respective audiences. Godwin is also given a new assessment. A view of the extent and urgency over the French Revolution is provided by the chronological survey of replies to Burke’s Reflections given in an appendix.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |7 pages
Introduction
part |64 pages
Political Controversy 1769–1771
chapter |5 pages
Wilkes and the Middlesex Election: A Brief Survey
chapter |16 pages
The Letters of Junius
chapter |13 pages
Samuel Johnson: The False Alarm
chapter |7 pages
Junius and Johnson: The Falkland Islands Dispute
chapter |21 pages
Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
part |192 pages
Political Controversy 1790–1793