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 ukryj opis