Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Joanna Innes and Arthur Burns; 2. 'Reform' in English public life: the fortunes of a word Joanna Innes; 3. Parliament, the state and 'old corruption': conceptualising reform, c. 1790–1832 Philip Harling; 4. 'Old wine in new bottles': the concept and practice of law reform, c. 1780–1830 Michael Lobban; 5. English 'church reform' revisited, 1780–1840 Arthur Burns; 6. Medicine in the age of reform Ian A. Burney; 7. British antislavery reassessed David Turley; 8. 'The age of physiological reformers': rethinking gender and domesticity in the age of reform Kathryn Gleadle; 9. Reforming the aristocracy: opera and elite culture, 1780–1860 Jennifer L. Hall-Witt; 10. Reform on the London stage Katherine Newey; 11. Reforming culture: national art institutions in the age of reform Holger Hoock; 12. Irish reform between the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine Jennifer Ridden; 12. Empire and parliamentary reform: the 1832 Reform Act revisited Miles Taylor; 14. Reforms, movements for reform and possibilities of reform: comparing Britain and continental Europe Jonathan Sperber; Index.