Populism, gender, and sympathy in the romantic novel

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Label

Populism, gender, and sympathy in the romantic novel

Statement of responsibility

James P. Carson

Creator

• Carson, James Patrick, 1955-

Subject

• Crowds in literature
• Disguise in literature
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Populism in literature
• Riots in literature
• Sympathy in literature
• Women in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Carson's Populism. Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is an intensely original study, a powerful and provocative meditation on political and gender issues raised with special urgency by the major Romantic English novelists. By extracting from these novels a rich thematic complexity centered on mass movements and the role that women are represented as playing in them, Carson rescues Gothic and Romantic fiction from the charge that it is merely sensationalistic or sentimental. This is an important book, consistently insightful and often revelatory."--John Richetti, A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Pennsylvania" "In this fascinating study, Carson examines the decline of the voice of the crowd in the Romantic era, as social unity achieved in the realm of sound is challenged by aural surveillance. He vividly recounts the process by which Romantic novels are complicit in and resistant to the attempt to exert power over the masses by individualizing them. This work importantly engages with recent work on nations and nation-building and on the place of people in them."--Frances Ferguson, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor, Johns Hopkins University" "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 that 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."--Jacket

Member of

• Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.709355

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR868.C75

LC item number

C37 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters