LEADER 03291nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910808350103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8587-0 010 $a1-4237-3929-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458458 035 $a(OCoLC)62757542 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594776 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113962 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143149 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113962 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101623 035 $a(PQKB)10972779 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408449 035 $a(OCoLC)62365198 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6087 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408449 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594776 035 $a(DE-B1597)682632 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791485873 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458458 100 $a20021219d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBorders of a lip $eRomanticism, language, history, politics /$fJan Plug 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5929-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tThe Sign of History -- $t?As if ? History?Kant, Then and Now -- $tNaming History: Wordsworth -- $tBordering the Political -- $tLegal Matter -- $tBorders, Crossing -- $tThe Debts of History -- $tCrossing Culture -- $tA Specular Nation: Yeats?s Myth of the Irish -- $tThreats, Responses: An Afterword -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book recasts questions about the overlapping boundaries of language, history, and politics that have been at the center of critical and theoretical debates in the study of Romantic literature and thought. While poststructuralism and deconstruction have been accused of privileging language over history, the New Historicism and other historicist and cultural approaches to literature have attempted to restore history's place in the study of literature. Taking its title from a reading of the word Lippe in Kleist's Die Hermannsschlacht, Borders of a Lip is drawn to neither of these poles, but instead to their meeting place or coincidence: the site of a border, a political or national boundary, even the boundary that is the political, the lip that is also the place of language. Through readings of Kant, Wordsworth, Kleist, Mary Shelley, Yeats, and Lyotard, the book examines the convergence of language and history that takes place in their work. Instead of placing language and history in absolute opposition, making the border an unbreachable limit, the book explores how crossing these borders (re)defines the political. 606 $aRomanticism$zEurope 606 $aEuropean literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.9145/094 700 $aPlug$b Jan$01666744 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808350103321 996 $aBorders of a lip$94053688 997 $aUNINA