Transport: Mobility, Anxiety, and the Romantic Poetics of Feeling

Lyric without Subjects and Law without Persons: Vagrancy, Police Power, and the <em>Lyrical Tales</em>

“…No friend shall weep my destiny For friends are scarce, and tears are few; None do I see, save on this stone Where I will stay, and weep alone! (141- 44) In claiming the identity of "Trav'ller" (8) and asking to hear the boy's story, the poet-speaker invites precisely the kind of uneasy identification between vagrant and poet that scholars have long noted in Wordsworth. The poem, however, is dominated by the boy's utter refusal of such an identification with expressive subjectivity.…”

“…Meanwhile, the lascar's "transport" here is, as Miranda Burgess argues, a figure of both affective and geopolitical removal; for Burgess, Romantic "transport" links the material capacities of transport-the ever-increasing mobility of goods, people, and information between colony and metropole and throughout the globe-to what Adela Pinch terms the "vagrancy of emotions" and the particular anxieties attending the possibility of being emotionally moved against one's will. 44 As Humberto Garcia notes, Robinson employs the language of antislavery in her figurations of sympathy blocked by racial difference, such as when she ventriloquizes the lascar's lament that he cannot "touch the soul of man, and share / a brother's love, a brother's care" (247-48). 45 Thus, even his plea for recognition as a creature of fellow-feeling is a citation that crosses oceans.…”

William Blake and the Emergence of Romantic Media Studies

“…For additional recent work crucial for the development of the sub‐field in Romantic studies, see Miranda Burgess' “Transport: Mobility, Anxiety, and the Romantic Poetics of Feeling,” Ina Ferris and Paul Keen's Bookish Histories (), Andrew Piper's Dreaming in Books (), and Clifford Siskin and William Warner's This is Enlightenment (). For further work in media theory and history that has proven to be important for the sub‐field, see Alexander Galloway's The Interface Effect (), Alexander Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark's Excommunication (), Lisa Gitelman's Always Already New (), Matthew Kirschenbaum's Mechanisms (), Jussi Parikka's What is Media Archaeology ?…”

Remediating Romanticism

“…5 5 For more on media and affect in the Romantic period see two articles in the recent special edition of Studies in Romanticism on melancholy and nostalgia (2010): Miranda Burgess, “Transport: Mobility, Anxiety, and the Romantic Poetics of Feeling”; and Kevis Goodman, “ ‘Uncertain Disease’: Nostalgia, Pathologies of Motion, and Practices of Reading.” …”