Religion toleration and British writing 1790 1830 Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets novelists and political writers criticised the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how Romantic writers including Bentham Radcliffe Edgeworth and Byron saw their works as political and literary commentaries on the extent and limits of religious toleration; Geschichte 1790 1830; 1700 1899 Romanticism and the writing of toleration Holy hypocrisy and the rule of belief: Radcliffes gothics Coleridges polemic divinity Sect and secular economy in the Irish national tale Wordsworth and the frame of social being Consecrated fancy : Byron and Keats Conclusion: the Inquisitorial stage