Contents

Sebastian Domsch and Katharina Rennhak Introduction: Romantic Ambiguities - Abodes of the Modern 1

I Poetry 19

Mark J. Bruhn Ambiguity in Affect: The Modernity of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads 21

Nicholas Halmi Two Types of Wordsworthian Ambiguity 37

Ralf Haekel 'The earth is all before me': Contingency and Ambiguity in Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's The Prelude 53

Frank Erik Pointner and Dennis Weißenfels From Childe Harold to Don Juan: Narrative Ambiguity in Byron's Major Works 69

Jens Martin Gurr Views on Violence in Shelley's Post-Peterloo Prose and Poetry: Contradiction, Ambivalence, Ambiguity? 83

II Non-Fictional Prose 95

James Vigus A 'Romantic State of Uncertainty': William Hazlitt's 'On Going a Journey' 97

Cian Duffy Ambiguity and the Value of 'Literature': Thomas De Quincey's Modernist Commodities 111

Gerold Sedlmayr The Ambiguous Nature of the Romantic Scientification of Literary Knowledge 125

Peter J. Kitson 'Unexpected Affinities' and 'Fatal Errors': Ambiguities in the Romantic Reception of Confucius 139

III Drama and the Novel 151

Frederick Burwick The Ambiguity of Time in Romantic Drama 153

Michael O'Neill Anatomizing Casuistry: Shelley's The Cenci and the Fate of Analysis 169

Angela Esterhammer Ambiguous Identities in Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Its Late-Romantic Contexts 181

Martin Procházka Internalized Apocalypse? Ambiguities of Transcendentalism in Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities 193

Ian Duncan The Novel and the Romantic 'Moment' 201

IV Afterlives 215

Pascal Fischer The Sublime: A Category of Ambiguity 217

Miroslawa Modrzewska and Stanislaw Modrzewski Navigational Approximations in Joseph Conrad's World at Sea 229

Sabrina Sontheimer Travelling Ambiguities in the Illustrated Rimes of the Ancient Mariner 241

Stefanie Fricke Losing and Gaining Ambiguities: First Impressions, Pride and Prejudice and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries 259

Christoph Reinfandt The Romantic Paradigm: Ambiguity, Then and Now 279

Contributors 295

Acknowledgements 301