Material Transgressions

Material Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outsideof historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexedbodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. The essaysgathered here examine how Romantic writers rethink materiality, especially thesubject-object relationship, in order to challenge the tenets of Enlightenmentand the culture of sensibility that privileged the hegemony of the speaking andfeeling lyric subject and to undo supposedly i