Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 ‘Reform’ in English public life: the fortunes of a word
- 3 Parliament, the state, and ‘Old Corruption’: conceptualizing reform, c. 1790–1832
- 4 ‘Old wine in new bottles’: the concept and practice of law reform, c. 1780–1830
- 5 English ‘church reform’ revisited, 1780–1840
- 6 Medicine in the age of reform
- 7 British antislavery reassessed
- 8 ‘The age of physiological reformers’: rethinking gender and domesticity in the age of reform
- 9 Reforming the aristocracy: opera and elite culture, 1780–1860
- 10 Reform on the London stage
- 11 Reforming culture: national art institutions in the age of reform
- 12 Irish reform between the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine
- 13 Empire and parliamentary reform: the 1832 Reform Act revisited
- 14 Reforms, movements for reform, and possibilities of reform: comparing Britain and continental Europe
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 ‘Reform’ in English public life: the fortunes of a word
- 3 Parliament, the state, and ‘Old Corruption’: conceptualizing reform, c. 1790–1832
- 4 ‘Old wine in new bottles’: the concept and practice of law reform, c. 1780–1830
- 5 English ‘church reform’ revisited, 1780–1840
- 6 Medicine in the age of reform
- 7 British antislavery reassessed
- 8 ‘The age of physiological reformers’: rethinking gender and domesticity in the age of reform
- 9 Reforming the aristocracy: opera and elite culture, 1780–1860
- 10 Reform on the London stage
- 11 Reforming culture: national art institutions in the age of reform
- 12 Irish reform between the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine
- 13 Empire and parliamentary reform: the 1832 Reform Act revisited
- 14 Reforms, movements for reform, and possibilities of reform: comparing Britain and continental Europe
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
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- Rethinking the Age of ReformBritain 1780–1850, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003