Introduction -- Our Last Great Age of Heroes -- Part 1. Eighteenth-Century Hero Types -- The Child of Nature -- the Hero of Sensibility: Man of Feeling Or Gloomy Egoist -- The Gothic Villain -- Part 2. Romantic Hero Types -- The Noble Outlaw -- Faust -- Cain and Ahasuerus -- Satan and Prometheus -- Byronic Heroes -- Childe Harold -- Four Turkish Tales -- Two Metaphysical Dramas -- The Byronic Hero and Heroic Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliographical Appendix on Hero Types -- Index.

pt. 1. Eighteenth-century hero types -- pt. 2. Romantic hero types -- pt. 3. Byronic heroes.