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'We live by chance, and slip into Events': Occasionality and the Manuscript Verse of Katherine Philips by Marie-Louise Coolahan 9
'The Most Universal Villain I Ever Knew': Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Wharton by Christopher Robbins 24
Mrs Sheridan's Active Demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats by Anna M. Fitzer 39
Jacobites, Whiteboys and Republicans: Varieties of Disaffection in Eighteenth-Century Ireland by S. J. Connolly 63
'Language Is the Eye of Society': Edmund Burke on the Origins of the Polite and the Civil by Seán Patrick Donlan 80
Ascendancy: Lady Mount Cashell, Lady Moira, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Union Pamphlets by Janet Todd 98
William Maume: United Irishman and Informer in Two Hemispheres by Michael Durey 118
Review Articles
'That Polite and Almost Universal Language' by Graham Gargett 141
The Completion of the Act of Union by Eoin Magennis 150
Reviews 154