Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. As this diverse group of essays demonstrates, we can now speak of a global Romanticism that encompasses emerging critical categories such as Romantic pedagogy, transatlantic studies, and transnationalism, with the result that 'new' works by writers marginalized by class, gender, race, or geography are invited into the canon at the same time that fresh readings of traditional texts emerge. Exemplifying these developments, the authors and topics examined include Elizabeth Inchbald, Lord Byron, Gerard de Nerval, English Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Anglo-American conflicts, manifest destiny, and teaching romanticism. The collection constitutes a powerful rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies.

General Editors' Preface, Larry Peer; Introduction, Jeffrey Cass; Part 1 British Border Crossings; Chapter 1 Gateway to Heterotopia: Elsewhere on Stage, Frederick Burwick; Chapter 2 To Be and Not To Be: The Bounded Body and Embodied Boundary in Inchbald's A Simple Story, Valerie Henitiuk; Chapter 3 Byron Under the Black Flag, Talissa Ford; Part 2 Comparative Border Crossings; Chapter 4 Crossing Boundaries in Nerval's Voyage en Orient, Hugo Azérad; Chapter 5 Transgressions of Gender and Generation in the Families of Goethe's Meister, Ingrid Broszeit-Rieger; Chapter 6 Transcending Borders: Loss and Mourning in Gottfried August Bürger's "Lenore", Gabriele Dillmann; Part 3 Historical Border Crossings; Chapter 7 Crossing from 'Jacobin' to 'Anti-Jacobin': Rethinking the Terms of English Jacobinism, Miriam L. Wallace; Chapter 8 Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Early Psychiatrists, 1790-1830, Michelle Faubert; Chapter 9 Genre Crossings: Gothic Novels and the Borders of History, Bronwyn Rivers; Part 4 Pedagogical Border Crossings; Chapter 10 Teaching Orientalism through British Romantic Drama: Representations of Arabia, Marjean D. Purinton; Chapter 11 Crossing the Borders of Genre in Romantics Scholarship and the Classroom, Stephen C. Behrendt; Chapter 12 Learning from Excess: Emily Dickinson and Bettine von Arnim's Die Günderode, Kari Lokke; Part 5 American and Transatlantic Border Crossings; Chapter 13 A Uniform Hieroglyphic: Crossing Race and Ethnicity in Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), Jeanne Cortiel; Chapter 14 Manifest Empire: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Shaping of U.S. Manifest Destiny, Sohui Lee; Chapter 15 Ample Make This Bed: Dickinson's Dying in Drama and Arnim's Liebestod, Lilach Lachman;