By The Keats Letters Project Jeanne Britton (University of South Carolina)
RE: To Haydon, 22 December 1818 …read more

Source:: http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/allthevicesofapoet/

By Anna Mercer

The Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Dr. Arlene Leis and Dr. Kacie Wills

We are inviting chapter abstracts for a collection of essays designed for academics, specialists and enthusiasts interested in the interrelations between art, science and collecting in Europe during the long 18th century. Our volume will discuss the topic of art, science and collecting in its broadest sense and in diverse theoretical contexts, such as art historical, feminist, social, gendered, colonial, archival, literary and cultural ones. To accompany our existing contributions, we welcome essays that take a global and material approach, and are particularly keen on research that makes use of new archival resources. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and are especially interested in essays that reveal the way in which women participated in art, science, and collecting in some capacity. The compendium will consist of around 15 essays, 6000 words each (including footnotes), with up to four illustrations. In addition to these more traditional essays, we are looking for shorter (circa 1,000 words) case studies on material objects pertaining to collections/collectors from that period. The subject of …read more

Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=2290

By The Keats Letters Project Keats writes to Woodhouse about the possibility of an introduction to Jane and Anna Maria Porter. …read more

Source:: http://keatslettersproject.com/letters/letter-106-to-richard-woodhouse-18-december-1818/

By Anna Mercer

A final 2018 report from the ‘Romantic Novels 1818′ seminar. This series is sponsored by BARS and seminars are held at the University of Greenwich.

Charles Robert Maturin, Women; or, Pour et Contre (1818), as discussed by Christina Morin (University of Limerick)

Blog post report by Victoria Ravenwood (Canterbury Christ Church University)

The highly-anticipated final seminar in the ‘Romantic Novels 1818′ series was delivered by Christina Morin, of the University of Limerick, on Charles Robert Maturin’s Women; or, Pour et Contre. Interestingly, Morin opened the discussion with talk of another notable 1818 novel – namely, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein– and the Frankenreads project directed by Neil Fraistat to mark its 200-year anniversary. With this in mind, she presented the question: Why are we celebrating Frankensteinalone, and not any of the other great works published in that same year? Morin offered Maturin’s Womenas an equally fascinating alternative to Shelley’s seminal Gothic work.

Women; or, Pour et Contrewas Maturin’s fourth novel, and centres around the lives of two women – Eva, a deeply religious but naïve young girl; and Zaira, a beautiful, talented and successful actress – and their romantic involvements with the same man, the charming De Courcy. The …read more

Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=2286

By The Keats Letters Project Kamran Javadizadeh (Villanova University)
RE: To George and Georgiana Keats, 16 December 1818-4 January 1819 …read more

Source:: http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/improper-time/

By The Keats Letters Project Keats attempts to weasel his way out of having accepted two different invitations for Christmas day dinner. …read more

Source:: http://keatslettersproject.com/letters/letter-105-to-charlotte-reynolds-nee-cox-15-december-1818/

By The Keats Letters Project Keats attempts to weasel his way out of having accepted two different invitations for Christmas day dinner. …read more

Source:: http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/letter-105-to-charlotte-reynolds-nee-cox-15-december-1818/

By Matthew Sangster

The accepted open call sessions for BARS’ 2019 International Conference, themed around Romantic Facts and Fantasies, have now been published on the main conference page on the University of Nottingham website. Details can be accessed using the links below; abstracts should be sent to the named organiser for consideration.

…read more

Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=2283

By The Keats Letters Project Keats writes a note to Fanny preparing her for the imminent news about Tom. …read more

Source:: http://keatslettersproject.com/letters/letter-104-to-fanny-keats-30-november-1818/