Dialogue appeared in nearly every guise imaginable during the Romantic period, and was used for everything from the promotion of razor strops to the questioning of Newton's principle of gravitation. However, political, religious and philosophical controversies clearly preoccupied many dialogue writers in this period and the mentoring framework predominated as a means of promoting their ideas in a persuasive and potentially influential manner – hence my focus upon these issues. Although many of the dialogues I have analysed individually (particularly those written as part of the Revolution Controversy and the promotion of evangelicalism), reflect themes which preoccupied many other dialogue writers, I selected them strategically either because of their distinctive literary or thematic merits, or because they can be seen (retrospectively) as contributing innovatively to the evolution of the genre. It is obviously beyond the remit of this book to provide an exhaustive account of every dialogue written, but the selective nature of my readings, coupled with the main developments I have discussed clearly open up multiple avenues for further research going forward into the nineteenth century and into this seriously neglected literary genre. It is an immense pity that a genre seen by so many as ostensibly too unliterary or simplistic to warrant serious scholarly attention has been largely ignored hitherto, but I sincerely hope that this book has gone some way to addressing this discrepancy and has given an insight into just how complex the issue of dialogic didacticism really was in the Romantic period.