Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
Introduction : romantic economies -- Marketing agreement : Richardson's romance of consensus -- "Summoned into the machine" : Burney's genres, Sheridan's sentiment, and conservative critique -- Wollstonecraft and the revolution of economic history -- Romance at home : Austen, Radcliffe, and the circulation of Britishness -- Bastard romance : Scott, Hazlitt, and the ends of legitimacy -- Epilogue : sensibility, genre, and the cultural marketplace