Romanticism - an era of rebellion of overreachers revolting against previous generations'
conventions of taste style and morals. Romantics made transgression their badge of honour and
prided themselves on the desecration of formerly canonised laws. The repercussions of these
meaningful and consequential trespasses are explored in unique ways in their texts. Having
gathered thirteen papers given at the 2019 joint conference of the German Society for English
Romanticism (GER) and the International Association of Byron Societies (IABS) at the University
of Vechta this essay collection examines the extent to which boundaries were crossed
permeated and violated. The boundaries between Orient and Occident humanity and the animal
world subject and object fictional and factual and even life and death all of which were
contemplated by selected authors of English and German Romanticism are of particular interest.
Contents List of Figures
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vii Acknowledgements
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ix SWANTJE VAN MARK AND NORBERT LENNARTZ Transgression in Romanticism: Some Introductory
Remarks ........................................ 1 RICHARD LANSDOWN Appetite and Deeds War and
the Will: Faustian Transgression in Byron's The Deformed Transformed
.................................... 9 DIEGO SAGLIA Of Flesh and Boundaries: Transgressing Gaps
and Orifices in Romantic Orientalism ......................................... 25 MARVIN
REIMANN Byron's The Giaour: Dismantling the Boundaries between Orient and Occident through
Romantic Irony ................................................ 41 SOPHIA MÖLLERS The Historian
Turned Anatomist of the Soul: Tracing Transgressive Psychology in William Godwin's Mandeville
.......................... 59 ALEXANDRA BÖHM Transgressive Encounters: Sympathy with Animals in
John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Evenings at Home and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of
the Ancyent Marinere ................................ 71 IAN DUNCAN Imps of the Perverse:
Romantic Fiction and Antinomian Denial ................................. 91 ALEXANDER SCHLUTZ A
poor imprisoned animal. Persons Property and the Unnatural Nature of the Law in E.T.A.
Hoffmann's The Entail .................... 103 SEBASTIAN DOMSCH Transgressing (Story)Worlds:
Polidori Byron and The Vampyre ............................. 115 JONATHAN GROSS No hopes for
them as laughs: William Beckford in the Margins of Robert Southey's and Lord Byron's Visions of
Judgement .................................... 125 DENISE GIGANTE Transgressing the Sacred
Frontier of Culture ............................................................. 147 RICHARD
C. SHA Can Transgression Be Meaningful Even After It Is Required or Expected? ..............
165 NICHOLAS ROE Transgressive Biography
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KASAHARA YORIMICHI Croly's Dying Warrior: The Roman Gladiator That Crossed the Boundary and
Turned into Arminius .......... 199 List of Contributors
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