Romantic Border Crossings (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Contributors: Jeffrey Cass (Editor); Larry Peer (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780754660514
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism
Description: "Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. As this diverse group of essays demonstrates, we can now speak of a global Romanticism that encompasses emerging critical categories such as Romantic pedagogy, transatlantic studies, and transnationalism, with the result that 'new' works by writers marginalized by class, gender, race, or geography are invited into the canon at the same time that fresh readings of traditional texts emerge. Exemplifying these developments, the authors and topics examined include Elizabeth Inchbald, Lord Byron, Gerard de Nerval, English Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Anglo-American conflicts, manifest destiny, and teaching romanticism. The collection constitutes a powerful rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies."--BOOK JACKET.