Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-306) and index.
Contents:
What is the people? / Philip Connell and Nigel Leask -- 'A degrading species of Alchymy' : ballad poetics, oral tradition, and the meanings of popular culture / Nigel Leask -- Refiguring the popular in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish poetry / Leith Davis -- 'An individual flowering on a common stem' : melody, performance, and national song / Kirsteen McCue -- Rus in urbe / John Barrell -- The 'sinking down' of Jacobinism and the rise of the counter-revolutionary man of letters / Kevin Gilmartin -- Shelley's Mask of anarchy and the visual iconography of female distress / Ian Haywood -- Popularizing the public : Robert Chambers and the rewriting of the antiquarian city / Ina Ferris -- Keats, popular culture, and the sociobility of theatre / Gillian Russell -- A world within walls : Haydon, The mock election, and 1820s debtors' prisons / Gregory Dart -- Every-day poetry : William Hone, popular antiquarianism, and the literary anthology / Mina Gorji -- How to popularize Wordsworth / Philip Connell.
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