Populism, gender, and sympathy in the romantic novel
By: James P. Carson.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230621107
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Crowds in literature; Riots in literature; Populism in literature; Women in literature; Disguise in literature; Sympathy in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gothic and romantic crowds; title: Popular versus legitimate authority in Scott's The heart of mid-Lothian; title: Gothic properties: Matthew Lewis's The monk and Journal of a West India proprietor; title: Unisonance and the echo: popular disturbances and theatricality in the works of Charles Maturin; title: Godwin's "metaphysical dissecting knife"; title: "A sigh of many hearts": history, humanity, and popular culture in Valperga and Lodore.