Rethinking the Age of Reform

Combining the research of recognized young scholars this book revisits Britain's much-studied age of reform before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832. It demonstrates that reformers hoped to reform not only parliament government the law and the church but also medicine and the theater among other entities. While the study focuses primarily on Britain it also includes essays on Ireland the Empire and continental Europe. A substantial introduction provides an overview of the period and its historiography.