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Author:

Carson, James Patrick, 1955-

Title:

Populism, gender, and sympathy in the romantic novel / James P. Carson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 247 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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.

Contents:

Gothic and romantic crowds -- Popular versus legitimate authority in Scott's The heart of mid-Lothian -- Gothic properties: Matthew Lewis's The monk and Journal of a West India proprietor -- Unisonance and the echo: popular disturbances and theatricality in the works of Charles Maturin -- Godwin's "metaphysical dissecting knife" -- "A sigh of many hearts": history, humanity, and popular culture in Mary Shelley's Valperga and Lodore.

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

ISBN:

0230621104 (alk. paper)
9780230621107 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)431533654

LCCN:

2009032664

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)