Praxis Series

Romanticism and Anti-Slavery Literatures: Pedagogies and Contexts reflects on the question of what it means to teach abolitionist and anti-slavery literature of the long nineteenth century in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. Urgent questions remain regarding what it means to teach Romantic anti-slavery…

“Pandemic” was Merriam-Webster’s—and everyone else’s—2020 Word of the Year, but the silent partner of any crisis is “contingency.” The unconscionable death toll in the United States is at least partly the result of a failure to prepare for the non-surprise surprise of the pandemic. At the time this introduction was written, we were repeatedly…

The years between 1750 and 1850 were pivotal for shaping contemporary ideas about wellbeing, health, illness, and disability. Romantic thinkers saw wellbeing as relative, embodied, and inextricable from social and political circumstances. This volume shows that the Romantic era can offer resources for thinking about the particular…

This collection takes up two interrelated questions. One, how might the interdisciplinary field of sound studies change the way we engage with Romantic literature? Two, how can sound studies foment broader inquiries into a range of Romanticisms not exclusive to British Romanticism? Inspired by such thinking, the essays gathered here attest to…