The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and...
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The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Gothic and Romantic Crowds; 2 Popular versus Legitimate Authority in Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian; 3 Gothic Properties: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Journal of a West India Proprietor; 4 Unisonance and the Echo: Popular Disturbances and Theatricality in the Works of Charles Maturin; 5 Godwin's "Metaphysical Dissecting Knife"; 6 "A Sigh of Many Hearts": History, Humanity, and Popular Culture in Mary Shelley's Valperga and Lodore; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
