Material Transgressions: Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders, Things

by Kate Singer, Ashley Cross, Suzanne Barnett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078363
• ISBN13: 9781802078367
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 320 Pages