Robert Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

'… an exceptionally well-informed and compelling account of the ways in which various members of the Opposition tried to construct authoritative masculine personae during the American War.' Jonathan Lamb, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

• Introduction; 1. The character of opposition; 2. Edmund Burke and the law of empire; 3. The wounding of John Burgoyne; 4. Admiral Keppel and the honour of the nation; 5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the theatre of patriotism; 6. The victorious defeat of Thomas Chatterton; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Robert Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

'… an exceptionally well-informed and compelling account of the ways in which various members of the Opposition tried to construct authoritative masculine personae during the American War.' Jonathan Lamb, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

• Introduction; 1. The character of opposition; 2. Edmund Burke and the law of empire; 3. The wounding of John Burgoyne; 4. Admiral Keppel and the honour of the nation; 5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the theatre of patriotism; 6. The victorious defeat of Thomas Chatterton; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Robert Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

'… an exceptionally well-informed and compelling account of the ways in which various members of the Opposition tried to construct authoritative masculine personae during the American War.' Jonathan Lamb, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

• Introduction; 1. The character of opposition; 2. Edmund Burke and the law of empire; 3. The wounding of John Burgoyne; 4. Admiral Keppel and the honour of the nation; 5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the theatre of patriotism; 6. The victorious defeat of Thomas Chatterton; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.