Ciaran Ross is Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He has published monographs on Samuel Beckett, including Beckett’s Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void (2011). He is the editor of SubVersions. Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (2010).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Where to Draw the Line?Ciaran RossPrologue: Borders and the Moment of BewildermentCornelius CrowleyPart 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and BoundariesIntroduction to Part 11 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and RemappedPauline Collombier-Lakeman2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th CenturyMarine Bellégo3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, BorderlandsNathalie Massip4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopper’s Reimagining the FrontierHélène Gaillard5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US BorderPierre-Alexandre BeylierPart 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal SpaceIntroduction to Part 26 Borders and Liminal Spaces in 16th-Century Collected Poetry: A Spatial Approach to the Advent of the English Sonnet Sequence in PrintRémi Vuillemin7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scott’s Rob Roy(1817)Matthew Smith8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Island’s Adventurous AestheticsJulie GayPart 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other SideIntroduction to Part 39 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung ChaAmanda Murphy10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell BanksMarine Paquereau11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular MusicDavid Bousquet12 Navigating the Restless “Boundaries of Migration”: Ruth Padel’s The Mara Crossingas a “Matter-Realist” Exploration of the Border between the Human and the NonhumanMaria TangIndex of Names

Ciaran Ross is Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He has published monographs on Samuel Beckett, including Beckett’s Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void (2011). He is the editor of SubVersions. Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (2010).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Where to Draw the Line?Ciaran RossPrologue: Borders and the Moment of BewildermentCornelius CrowleyPart 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and BoundariesIntroduction to Part 11 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and RemappedPauline Collombier-Lakeman2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th CenturyMarine Bellégo3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, BorderlandsNathalie Massip4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopper’s Reimagining the FrontierHélène Gaillard5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US BorderPierre-Alexandre BeylierPart 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal SpaceIntroduction to Part 26 Borders and Liminal Spaces in 16th-Century Collected Poetry: A Spatial Approach to the Advent of the English Sonnet Sequence in PrintRémi Vuillemin7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scott’s Rob Roy(1817)Matthew Smith8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Island’s Adventurous AestheticsJulie GayPart 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other SideIntroduction to Part 39 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung ChaAmanda Murphy10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell BanksMarine Paquereau11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular MusicDavid Bousquet12 Navigating the Restless “Boundaries of Migration”: Ruth Padel’s The Mara Crossingas a “Matter-Realist” Exploration of the Border between the Human and the NonhumanMaria TangIndex of Names

Ciaran Ross is Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He has published monographs on Samuel Beckett, including Beckett’s Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void (2011). He is the editor of SubVersions. Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (2010).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Where to Draw the Line?Ciaran RossPrologue: Borders and the Moment of BewildermentCornelius CrowleyPart 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and BoundariesIntroduction to Part 11 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and RemappedPauline Collombier-Lakeman2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th CenturyMarine Bellégo3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, BorderlandsNathalie Massip4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopper’s Reimagining the FrontierHélène Gaillard5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US BorderPierre-Alexandre BeylierPart 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal SpaceIntroduction to Part 26 Borders and Liminal Spaces in 16th-Century Collected Poetry: A Spatial Approach to the Advent of the English Sonnet Sequence in PrintRémi Vuillemin7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scott’s Rob Roy(1817)Matthew Smith8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Island’s Adventurous AestheticsJulie GayPart 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other SideIntroduction to Part 39 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung ChaAmanda Murphy10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell BanksMarine Paquereau11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular MusicDavid Bousquet12 Navigating the Restless “Boundaries of Migration”: Ruth Padel’s The Mara Crossingas a “Matter-Realist” Exploration of the Border between the Human and the NonhumanMaria TangIndex of Names