Romantic Border Crossings

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.