Abstract
This is a collection of conference papers produced as a collaborative exercise between the Universities of Edinburgh and Munich. Both History and English departments were involved. As the title of the book suggests, the essays here presented discuss issues in politics and literature in the two decades after 1789. They are, perhaps inevitably, very disparate in nature and quality. Only an excellent introduction by H.T. Dickinson and Ulrich Broich gives the volume any coherence. Of the historical contributions, the best are those which draw on archival research, and which therefore break new ground, namely Atle Wold on Scottish Loyalism, Eckhart Hellmuth on the legal context of Fox's Libel Act, and Marianne Czisnik on public memorials to Lord Nelson. Too many of the others rehearse debates among scholars in a form of academic dialogue that is increasingly removed from the events it attempts to explain. Among the English contributions, there are...
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