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Material Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside
of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed
bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. The essays
gathered here examine how Romantic writers rethink materiality, especially the
subject-object relationship, in order to challenge the tenets of Enlightenment
and the culture of sensibility that privileged the hegemony of the speaking and
feeling lyric subject and to undo supposedly invariable matter, and
representations of it, that limited their writing, agency, knowledge, and even
being. In this volume, the idea of transgression serves as a flexible and capacious
discursive and material movement that braids together fluid forms of affect,
embodiment, and textuality. The texts explored offer alternative
understandings of materiality that move beyond concepts that fix gendered
bodies and intellectual capacities, whether human or textual, idea or thing. They
enact processes - assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing,
shapeshifting, multi-voiced choric oralities - that redefine restrictive
structures in order to craft alternative modes of being in the world that can
help us to reimagine materiality both in the Romantic period and now. Such
dynamism not only reveals a new materialist imaginary for Romanticism but also
unveils textualities, affects, figurations, and linguistic movements that alter
new materialism's often strictly ontological approach.
List of contributors: Kate Singer, Ashley Cross, Suzanne L. Barnett, Harriet Kramer Linkin, Michael Gamer, Katrina O'Loughlin, Emily J. Dolive, Holly Gallagher, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Mary Beth Tegan, Mark Lounibos, Sonia Hofkosh, David Sigler, Chris Washington, Donelle Ruwe, Mark Lussier.
Contents
Introduction: Living in a New Material WorldKate Singer, Ashley Cross, and Suzanne L. Barnett
I. Textual Embodiments
Destabilizing Materiality Through Manuscript Culture in Blake, Coleridge, and Tighe
Harriet Kramer Linkin
Affect in the Margins: Marking Readers in the Elegiac Sonnets
Michael Gamer and Katrina O'Loughlin
Remapping the Printed Page in Women's Post-Waterloo Poetry
Emily Dolive
Vibrant Art on the Grand Tour in Anna Jameson's Diary of an Ennuyée
Holly Gallagher
II. Transgressive Things
Hester Stanhope, 'Un être à part': Material Transgression and Belonging in the East
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
'The Redundancy of Copious Nothings': Fictional Offspring and the Reproductions of Female VanityMary Beth Tegan
Revolutionary Objects in Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art
Mark Lounibos
Dancing with Ghosts in 'Isabella; or The Pot of Basil'
Sonia Hofkosh
It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Queer: Mary Shelley, Affect, and Shapeshifting through The Last ManKate Singer
III. Materialities Sexual & Animal
Voices against the Universe: Material Transgressions in the Blakean Multiverse
Mark Lussier
John Barnet and the Materiality of Desire in James Hogg's Justified Sinner
David Sigler
Phantasmion, or the Confessions of a Female Opium Eater
Donelle Ruwe
Werewolf Wollstonecraft: homo homini lupus, or Romantic Beast Wars
Chris Washington
