Virtuous Citizens : Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature.

Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Private Virtue Goes Public: Civic Activism in the Middling Classes
2. Gilbert Imlay's "Static Utopia": Antidemocratic Radicalism
3. The Virtue of Self-Government: Fear of, or Faith in, the People
4. "Possessed with an Idea": American Abolitionism and Counterpublic Protest
Conclusion: Private Virtue, Counterpublics, and Political Autonomy
Notes
Bibliography
Index.