Jon Mee was born educated in Nottingham before studying at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Cambridge. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College Oxford before taking up an appointment at the Australian National University in the early 1990s. He returned to Oxford at the end of 1996 to take up the Margaret Candfield Fellowship in English at University College and a post in the English Faculty of the University. He was appointed Professor Literature of the Romantic Period before moving to take up his current appointment at Warwick in 2007. This current monograph was written while holding a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. He has taught at the University of Delhi; University of Chicago, where he held a Shaffner visiting Fellowship. While writing this book he was also a visiting fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art and the Humanities Research Centre of the ANU.

a stimulating and erudite contribution to and critique of what we might call the Habermasian turn in Romantic studies.

• ABBREVIATIONS ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; Introduction: Opening Gambit ; 1. Some Paradigms of Conversability in the Eighteenth Century ; 2. Proliferating Worlds, 1762-1790 ; 3. Critical Conversation in the 1790s: Godwin, Hays, and Wollstonecraft ; 4. 'Language really used by men': Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth ; 5. Jane Austen and the Hazard of Conversation ; 6. Hazlitt, Hunt, and Cockney Conversability ; Epilogue

Jon Mee was born educated in Nottingham before studying at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Cambridge. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College Oxford before taking up an appointment at the Australian National University in the early 1990s. He returned to Oxford at the end of 1996 to take up the Margaret Candfield Fellowship in English at University College and a post in the English Faculty of the University. He was appointed Professor Literature of the Romantic Period before moving to take up his current appointment at Warwick in 2007. This current monograph was written while holding a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. He has taught at the University of Delhi; University of Chicago, where he held a Shaffner visiting Fellowship. While writing this book he was also a visiting fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art and the Humanities Research Centre of the ANU.

a stimulating and erudite contribution to and critique of what we might call the Habermasian turn in Romantic studies.

• ABBREVIATIONS ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; Introduction: Opening Gambit ; 1. Some Paradigms of Conversability in the Eighteenth Century ; 2. Proliferating Worlds, 1762-1790 ; 3. Critical Conversation in the 1790s: Godwin, Hays, and Wollstonecraft ; 4. 'Language really used by men': Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth ; 5. Jane Austen and the Hazard of Conversation ; 6. Hazlitt, Hunt, and Cockney Conversability ; Epilogue

Jon Mee was born educated in Nottingham before studying at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Cambridge. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College Oxford before taking up an appointment at the Australian National University in the early 1990s. He returned to Oxford at the end of 1996 to take up the Margaret Candfield Fellowship in English at University College and a post in the English Faculty of the University. He was appointed Professor Literature of the Romantic Period before moving to take up his current appointment at Warwick in 2007. This current monograph was written while holding a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. He has taught at the University of Delhi; University of Chicago, where he held a Shaffner visiting Fellowship. While writing this book he was also a visiting fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art and the Humanities Research Centre of the ANU.

a stimulating and erudite contribution to and critique of what we might call the Habermasian turn in Romantic studies.

• ABBREVIATIONS ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; Introduction: Opening Gambit ; 1. Some Paradigms of Conversability in the Eighteenth Century ; 2. Proliferating Worlds, 1762-1790 ; 3. Critical Conversation in the 1790s: Godwin, Hays, and Wollstonecraft ; 4. 'Language really used by men': Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth ; 5. Jane Austen and the Hazard of Conversation ; 6. Hazlitt, Hunt, and Cockney Conversability ; Epilogue