Chapter I. Jules Michelet's Le Peuple: The Populist Romance
A Romantic Sociology of the People
The Romantic Revolutionary View of History
The Romantic Populist
Chapter II. Les Misérables: A Populist Hagiography
The Sociology of Les Misérables
The Romantic Populist as Promethean Hero
The Edenization of the World
Chapter III. L'Assommoir and Germinal: Orpheus among the People
Romantic Sociology Repudiated
Alienated Romantic Populists
Orphic Revolutionary Historicism
Chapter IV. The Princess Casamassima: The Plebian Masquerade
The Sociology of Paradox
Theatrical Populists
The Populist Threat to Civilization
Chapter V. Galdós's La Revolución de Julio: The Tragic Pueblo
The Search for the Tragic Pueblo
Two Populists
The Tragic Pueblo in History