Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-xi

List of Abbreviations

pp xii-xii

Introduction

pp 1-24

I - Fabrications

pp 25-26

1 - Incorrigibility: The Warming Pan Scandal of 1688–89

pp 27-54

2 - ‘Working in th'immediate power to be’: The Popish and Protestant Plots

pp 55-84

II - Failures

pp 85-86

3 - Travesties: The Assassination and Insurrection Plots of 1683

pp 87-110

4 - Contingency and Incontinence: The Jacobite Invasion of 1708

pp 111-138

III - Speculations

pp 139-140

5 - The Indifference of Number: The South Sea Bubble, 1720–21

pp 141-166

6 - ‘Some Convenient Order’: Mandeville, Berkeley, and the Narration of Ethical Exchange

pp 167-180

IV - The Dunciads

pp 181-182

7 - Living in Counterhistory: The Dunciads as Mock-Prophecy

pp 183-206

8 - The Indifference of the Dunces: Agency in the Dunciads

pp 207-222

9 - Gravitation, Providence, and Theories of History in the Dunciads

pp 223-248

Conclusion: Events that Didn't Happen

pp 249-256

Bibliography

pp 257-274

Index

pp 275-282