Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is a richly historicized account that explores anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and unstable gender roles. James P. Carson argues that the Romantic novel is a form individualizing in its address, which exploits popular materials and stretches formal boundaries in an attempt to come to terms with the masses. Informed by Bakhtin, Foucault, and Freud, this book offers fresh new readings of works by Sir Walter Scott, William Godwin, Matthew Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, and Mary Shelley.

Autorentext
JAMES CARSON, Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction 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 Valperga and Lodore Conclusion