Introduction, Thomas N. Corns; Milton's "Areopagitica" - liberty for the sects, Michael Wilding; Richard Overton's Marpriest tracts - towards a history of leveller style, Nigel Smith; how to be a literary reader of Hobbes's most famous chapter, Charles Cantalupo; something to the purpose - Marvell's rhetorical strategy in "The Rehearsal Transpros'd", Jennifer Chibnall; the autobiographer as apologist -"Reliquiae Baxterianae" (1696), N.H. Keeble; Defoe's "Shortest Way with Dissenters" - irony, intention and reader-response, J.A. Downie; "in the case of David" - swift's "Drapier's Letters", Margarette Smith; Junius and the Grafton administration, 1768-1770, David W. Lindsay.
