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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.
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.
For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a
celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among
the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension
about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering
threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion
in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that
propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early
nineteenth century literature. Romantic Automata is a collection of
essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical
imitations of life. Recent scholarship in post-humanism,
post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism,
eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected
the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and
thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other
Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new
methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with
technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant
organic life. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed
worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Â
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