Conversable Worlds Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830

Luxuriating in intellectual complexity, Mee's account is impressive, exhaustive, and at times dazzling. His willingness not only to examine but also to embrace conversation as a "combative tradition" (Mee 3) is refreshing ... Mee has brought to the conversation something very significant indeed. Kimberly J. Stern, Review 19 This is an invaluable and provocative contribution not just to eighteenth-century and Romantic-period studies, but to ongoing debates surrounding the public sphere and sociability from the Enlightenment period right through to the present. Helen O'Connell, Review of English Studies