Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature -- 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'sPast and Present and Heroes -- 6. "To Please a Woman Worthy of Being Pleased": Darcymania in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice -- 7. Dependent Masters and Independent Servants: The Gothic Pleasures of British Homes in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.