Table of Contents

Introduction: Living in a New Material WorldKate Singer, Ashley Cross, and Suzanne L. Barnett

I. Textual Embodiments

Destabilizing Materiality Through Manuscript Culture in Blake, Coleridge, and Tighe
Harriet Kramer Linkin
 
Affect in the Margins: Marking Readers in the Elegiac Sonnets
Michael Gamer and Katrina O’Loughlin

Remapping the Printed Page in Women’s Post-Waterloo Poetry
Emily Dolive

Vibrant Art on the Grand Tour in Anna Jameson’s Diary of an Ennuyée
Holly Gallagher

II. Transgressive Things

Hester Stanhope, 'Un être à part': Material Transgression and Belonging in the East
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

‘The Redundancy of Copious Nothings': Fictional Offspring and the Reproductions of Female VanityMary Beth Tegan
Revolutionary Objects in Elizabeth Inchbald’s Nature and Art
Mark Lounibos

Dancing with Ghosts in 'Isabella; or The Pot of Basil'
Sonia Hofkosh

It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Queer: Mary Shelley, Affect, and Shapeshifting through The Last ManKate Singer
III. Materialities Sexual & Animal

Voices against the Universe: Material Transgressions in the Blakean Multiverse
Mark Lussier

John Barnet and the Materiality of Desire in James Hogg’s Justified Sinner
David Sigler

Phantasmion, or the Confessions of a Female Opium Eater
Donelle Ruwe

Werewolf Wollstonecraft: homo homini lupus, or Romantic Beast Wars
Chris Washington

About the Author

Kate Singer is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. Ashley Cross is Professor of English at Manhattan College. Suzanne L. Barnett is an independent scholar.