Lucy Cogan is Lecturer in English (Long-Eighteenth Century) at NUI Galway, Ireland. She has published a monograph on William Blake entitled Blake and the Failure of Prophecy (2021) and a range of articles and essays on gender and sexuality in Blake's writing, and on women's writing in the long-eighteenth century.
Michelle O'Connell is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published essays and articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry and fiction, and is currently working on a full-length study of the construction of the nineteenth-century female poetic subject. 

1 Introduction: Testing the Boundaries of Being in the Long Nineteenth Century

Part I The Limits of Life

2 Drunkenness, Compulsion, and the Disintegration of the Self: Erasmus Darwin's Theory of Ebrietas in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth

3 Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies

4 The Catheter Life: a Social History of Ageing, Risk, and Surgical Innovation in Britain's Long Nineteenth Century

Part II Death's Embrace

5 He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale

6 "Thy paleness makes me glad": Death, Sympathy, and the Body in Keats's Isabella

7 Poe In Extremis

Part III The Veil of Consciousness

8 "[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others": Receptivity and the Vanishing Body in Nineteenth-Century

Literature and Culture

9 Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium's Body as Battleground

10 Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature

11 Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of Consciousness