Welcome to BARS

The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) was set up in 1989 by academics to promote the study of the cultural history of the Romantic period. Since then, BARS has organised several international conferences at various locations in the UK, has published the BARS Bulletin and Review twice-yearly, and currently has more than 400 members.

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BARS Bulletin and Review

The BARS Bulletin and Review (ISSN 0964-2447) is published in pdf format twice a year in March and October and includes details of forthcoming conferences and other events of interest to Romanticists, calls for papers on Romantic-period topics, reports of recent Romanticism conferences, a postgraduate column, a large number of reviews of recent books on Romantic-period and related topics, and occasional articles.

Please direct all review-related enquiries to the Reviews Editor.

Reviews

Images from a forthcoming article:

Robert Poulter, New Model Theatre, A scene from The Buccaneer's Bride or The Rover's Return
Robert Poulter, New Model Theatre, A Scene from Oh! – Smith: the life and times of O. Smith, the celebrated Actor and King of Terror
Robert Poulter, Eidophusikon, Nouveau Musée Nationale de Monaco, (Permanent Collection)
Paper Theatres at Benjamin Pollocks Toyshop, London


Reviews Editor

Please direct all review-related enquiries to the Reviews Editor:

Dr David O'Shaughnessy
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

(email: d.p.o-shaughnessy@warwick.ac.uk).

All other enquiries should be sent to the Editor:

Dr David Higgins
School of English
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT

(email: d.higgins@leeds.ac.uk)

Bulletin in Adobe PDF format.