Introduction: Ridiculous Definitions
Chapter 1 - The Trouble with Nature: Romanticism from Below
Chapter 2 - In Defence of Silliness: Ridiculous Society from Austen to Ghosts
Chapter 3 - Even If It Hurts: Vulnerable Readings in Young Adult Fiction
Conclusion: Ridiculous Displays
Bibliography
Biography
Andrew McInnes is Reader in Romanticisms and Co-Director of EHU Nineteen: Research Centre in Nineteenth-Century Studies at Edge Hill University, UK.
Rita J. Dashwood is a literary scholar and historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her research focuses on women, property and cultural heritage, and the Romantic period’s legacies in popular culture. She is a Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, where she is working on her third book, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780–1900.
