ABSTRACT
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, Gérard 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
British Border Crossings
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
To Be and Not To Be: The Bounded Body and Embodied Boundary in Inchbald's A Simple Story
part II|34 pages
Comparative Border Crossings
chapter Chapter 5|12 pages
Transgressions of Gender and Generation in the Families of Goethe's Meister
chapter Chapter 6|10 pages
Transcending Borders: Loss and Mourning in Gottfried August Bürger's “Lenore”
part III|36 pages
Historical Border Crossings
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
Crossing from ‘Jacobin’ to ‘Anti-Jacobin’: Rethinking the Terms of English Jacobinism
part IV|36 pages
Pedagogical Border Crossings
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Teaching Orientalism through British Romantic Drama: Representations of Arabia
chapter Chapter 12|10 pages
Learning from Excess: Emily Dickinson and Bettine von Arnim's Die Günderode
part V|32 pages
American and Transatlantic Border Crossings