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.
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