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OverviewThis book examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniela GarofaloPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780791473580ISBN 10: 0791473589 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 08 January 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"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 Bronte's Jane Eyre Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsGarofalo reveals a persistent anxiety in nineteenth-century British writing-a fear that the conditions of modern life would undermine both national and individual will. She shows how a series of writers responded to that threat by constructing a 'manly leader' appropriate to an age of capitalism and political liberalism. - Ted Underwood, author of The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760-1860 The body chapters-especially those on Byron and Hazlitt-work through unfamiliar material with lucidity and verve, connecting ideas and texts not often put in juxtaposition with one another. - John Plotz, author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics """Garofalo reveals a persistent anxiety in nineteenth-century British writing-a fear that the conditions of modern life would undermine both national and individual will. She shows how a series of writers responded to that threat by constructing a 'manly leader' appropriate to an age of capitalism and political liberalism."" - Ted Underwood, author of The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760-1860 ""The body chapters-especially those on Byron and Hazlitt-work through unfamiliar material with lucidity and verve, connecting ideas and texts not often put in juxtaposition with one another."" - John Plotz, author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics" Author InformationDaniela Garofalo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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