id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt b2773t9678d Patrick Mello Toleration, Persecution, and the Novel 2013 .txt text/plain 321 11 34 Yet toleration, as defined in the 1689 Act of Toleration, functioned primarily to exclude any religious group seen as a threat to social stability, thereby maintaining religious belief as a legal standard for exclusion throughout the eighteenth century. Through her mere existence as a political and religious outsider, for instance, Jane Barker's Galesia disrupts Whig social norms. cache/b2773t9678d.txt txt/b2773t9678d.txt