Post: CFP—In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads (Special issue of Romantic Textualities)
![The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes tethered off at the garden of the Reveillon workshop, Paris, on 19 October 1783.](https://i0.wp.com/www.romtext.org.uk/files/2023/04/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1)
Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Altre Parole / In Other Words (2015) describes switching from one language to another as crossing from one side of a body of water to its opposite shore. Inspired by this metaphor, … Continue reading