Romantic Border Crossings

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties surrounding comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. Spanning a wide range of authors and topics that includes Elizabeth Inchbald, Gérard de Nerval, Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Anglo-American conflicts, the collection constitutes a rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies. 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. Contents: Introduction: heterotopia and romantic border crossings, Jeffrey Cass. Part I British Border Crossings: Gateway to Heterotopia: elsewhere on stage, Frederick Burwick; To be or not to be: the bounded body and the embodied boundary in Inchbald's A Simple Story, Valerie Henitiuk; Byron under the black flag, Talissa Ford. Part II Comparative Border Crossings: Crossing boundaries in Nerval's Voyage en Orient, Hugo Azerad; Transgressions of gender and generation in the families of Goethe's Meister, Ingrid Broszeit-Rieger; Transcending borders: loss and mourning in Gottfried August Bürger's Leonore, Gabriele Dillman. Part III Historical Border Crossings, Crossing from 'Jacobin' to 'anti-Jacobin': rethinking the terms of English Jacobinism, Miriam Wallace; Rhyming reason: the poetry of early psychiatrists, 1790-1830, Michelle Faubert; Genre crossings: gothic novels and the borders of history, Bronwyn Rivers. Part IV Pedagogical Border Crossings: Teaching orientalism through British romantic drama: representations of Arabia and the borders of the Near East, Marjean Purinton; Crossing the borders of genre in romantic scholarship and the classroom, Stephen Berendt; Learning from excess: Emily Dickinson and Bettina von Arnim's Die Günderode, Kari Lokke. Part V American and Transatlantic Border Crossings: A uniform hieroglyphic: crossing race and ethnicity in Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Jeanne Cortiel; Manifest empire: Anglo-American rivalry and the shaping of US manifest destiny, Sohui Lee; 'Ample make this bed': Dickinson's Dying in Drama and Bettina van Arnim's Liebestod, Lilach Lachman; Index. About the Author: Jeffrey Cass is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA. Larry Peer is Karl G. Maeser Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, USA.