Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Fantasies of National Virility and William Wordsworth’s Poet Leader
2. “A Left-Handed Way”: Modern Masters in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
3. Political Seductions: The Show of War in Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus
4. Sublime Democracy and the Theater of Violence: Authoritarianism in William Hazlitt’s The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
5. Communities in Mourning: Making Capital Out of Loss in Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present and Heroes
6. “To Please a Woman Worthy of Being Pleased”: Darcymania in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudicei
7. Dependent Masters and Independent Servants: The Gothic Pleasures of British Homes in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Notes
Bibliography
Index