Acknowledgements Ix
1 from Natural Law to Natural Rights = 1
Introduction = 1
Rights and Romanticism = 7
Natural Law = 10
Hobbes and The Demise of Natural Law = 16
Natural Rights = 22
Richard Cumberland and Sympathy = 24
Locke's Influence = 27
Causes Aplenty: Political and Social Contexts in The 1790's = 30
Joseph Johnson: a Congenial Publisher = 39
2 The Social Passions: Benevolence and Sentimentality = 41
Sentimentality and Benevolence = 41
Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith = 43
Oliver Goldsmith = 49
Henry Mackenzie = 57
Women Writers = 61
Robert Merry = 63
Sentimentality and Romanticism = 67
3 Rights and Wrongs = 77
Jean-jacques Rousseau = 77
Thomas Paine Versus Edmund Burke = 84
Mary Wollstonecraft = 90
Thomas Spence = 92
William Laurence Brown = 95
4 Manifestoes Into Fictions = 100
William Godwin = 101
Mary Wollstonecraft = 109
John Thelwall = 116
An Exception Proves The Rule: Thomas Holcroft = 130
Helen Maria Williams = 134
5 Novels of Natural Rights in The 1790's = 140
Elizabeth Inchbald: Nature and Art = 141
Robert Bage, Hermsprong Or Man As He Is Not = 145
Charlotte Smith: The Old Manor House and Desmond = 149
Eliza Fenwick: Secresy; Or, The Ruin on The Rock = 162
Mary Hays: The Victim of Prejudice = 163
6 Slavery As Fact and Metaphor: William Blake and Jean Paul Marat = 168
Slavery in Fact and Fiction = 169
William Blake: Slavery As Metaphor = 181
Jean Paul Marat: The Chains of Slavery = 192
7 Rights of Children and Animals = 196
Locke = 197
Rousseau and Wollstonecraft = 200
Wordsworth = 205
Thomas Spence: The Rights of Infants (1797) = 210
Child Labour = 212
Animal Rights = 224
Conclusion = 232
Notes = 234
Bibliography = 251
Index = 263
1 from Natural Law to Natural Rights = 1
Introduction = 1
Rights and Romanticism = 7
Natural Law = 10
Hobbes and The Demise of Natural Law = 16
Natural Rights = 22
Richard Cumberland and Sympathy = 24
Locke's Influence = 27
Causes Aplenty: Political and Social Contexts in The 1790's = 30
Joseph Johnson: a Congenial Publisher = 39
2 The Social Passions: Benevolence and Sentimentality = 41
Sentimentality and Benevolence = 41
Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith = 43
Oliver Goldsmith = 49
Henry Mackenzie = 57
Women Writers = 61
Robert Merry = 63
Sentimentality and Romanticism = 67
3 Rights and Wrongs = 77
Jean-jacques Rousseau = 77
Thomas Paine Versus Edmund Burke = 84
Mary Wollstonecraft = 90
Thomas Spence = 92
William Laurence Brown = 95
4 Manifestoes Into Fictions = 100
William Godwin = 101
Mary Wollstonecraft = 109
John Thelwall = 116
An Exception Proves The Rule: Thomas Holcroft = 130
Helen Maria Williams = 134
5 Novels of Natural Rights in The 1790's = 140
Elizabeth Inchbald: Nature and Art = 141
Robert Bage, Hermsprong Or Man As He Is Not = 145
Charlotte Smith: The Old Manor House and Desmond = 149
Eliza Fenwick: Secresy; Or, The Ruin on The Rock = 162
Mary Hays: The Victim of Prejudice = 163
6 Slavery As Fact and Metaphor: William Blake and Jean Paul Marat = 168
Slavery in Fact and Fiction = 169
William Blake: Slavery As Metaphor = 181
Jean Paul Marat: The Chains of Slavery = 192
7 Rights of Children and Animals = 196
Locke = 197
Rousseau and Wollstonecraft = 200
Wordsworth = 205
Thomas Spence: The Rights of Infants (1797) = 210
Child Labour = 212
Animal Rights = 224
Conclusion = 232
Notes = 234
Bibliography = 251
Index = 263