1. Introduction: Emotions, Politics, Entertainment—A Nineteenth-Century Transnational Plot
2. Emotions for Everyone: New Entertainment Spaces In Europe
3. A Theatrical Genre for Post-Revolutionary Society
4. Between Mélodrame and Melodramatic Imagination
5. Melodrama Italian-Style: In Search of an Audience Between Fiction and Politics
6. The Melodramatic Narration of Oppressed Italy
7. Not Just Words: Emotional Bodies in the "Long 1848"
8. Politics and the Language of Sentiment