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 eight International conferences at various locations in the UK, has published the BARS Bulletin and Review twice-yearly, and currently has more than 350 members.

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Societies, Archives and Databases

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: a Visual Record.  Online image archive at http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/

BARS Mailbase Archives http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html

Blake Society http://www.blakesociety.org.uk/

British Association for Victorian Studies http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/bavs/bavs.htm

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies http://www.bsecs.org.uk/

The British Library http://www.bl.uk/

Burney Society http://dc37.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/burney/index.html

Byron Society (The) - email TheByronSociety@amserve.com

Byron Society of America http://www.english.udel.edu/byron/

International Byron Society - Byron's Library - A searchable edition of Byron's three Book Sale Catalogues is now on the IntByrSoc website at Byron's Book Sale Catalogues

Charles Lamb Society http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1492/clsoc.htm

Compass Literature http://www.literature-compass.com/

Corvey Project http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/corvey

Friends of Coleridge http://www.friendsofcoleridge.com/index.html

German Society for English Romanticism http://www.englische-romantik.de

International Byron Society http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org/

International Colloquium on the Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/PercyByssheShelley.htm

International Conference on Romanticism http://icr.byu.edu/

International Gothic Association http://info.wlu.ca/%7Ewwwgac/

Japanese Association of English Romanticism http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hikari/jaer.htm

John Clare Page http://www.johnclare.info/

John Clare Society http://www.johnclare.org.uk/

John Clare Trust http://www.johnclaretrust.org/

Keats-Shelley Association of America http://www.rc.umd.edu/ksaa/ksaa.html

Keats-Shelley Journal http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/ksj.nsf

Keats-Shelley Memorial Association http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/publications.html

Lady Caroline Lamb Website http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/caro/index.html

NINES http://www.nines.org/

Nineteenth Century Studies Association http://www.selu.edu/ncs

Nineteenth-Century Contexts http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08905495.asp

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) http://publish.uwo.ca/~nassr

Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism http://icr.byu.edu/Prism(s).htm

Reading Experience Database 1450-1945: The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (RED)

Romantic Circles - Scholarly Resources http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/

Bibliography http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/bibliography

Romantic Circles Praxis - essays on Romantic Studies Topics http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/  

Fictions of Byron http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/byron-fictions/index.html 

Shelley Sites/Sights 1999-2001 http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/misc/shelleysites/index.html

Reviews http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/

Romanticism http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=11666

Romanticism on the Net http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/conferences.shtml

Romantic Links Page http://www.english.upenn.edu/%7Emgamer/Romantic/

STAR Project - Scotland's Transatlantic Relations http://www.star.ac.uk

"Theater and Popular Songs, Catches, Airs, and Art Songs of the
Romantic Period." http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music/index.html

Voice of the Shuttle - Romanticism section http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750

Walter Scott Digital Archive -

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.uk/publications/criticism/authorindex.html

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/publications/criticism/subjectindex.html

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/publications/criticism/articles.html

William Blake Archive www.blakearchive.org

William Gilbert Website http://www.williamgilbert.com

Wordsworth Circle http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/journal/wordsworth/

Wordsworth Variorum Archive http://www.wordsworthvariorum.com

Centres for Romantic Studies

Centre for Romantic Study, University of Bristol  http://www.bris.ac.uk/prospectus/postgraduate/2006/research_centres/ARTF#33

Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/

Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwythhttp://www.aber.ac.uk/english/

Centre for the study of Byron and Romanticism
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/research/byron/

MAs and taught MPhils in Romantic Studies

(Please note - More courses to follow...)

University of Bristol

Romanticism http://www.bris.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/prospective/ma-english

University of Cambridge

MPhil English Studies: British Literature 1700-1

University of Glasgow

M. Phil in Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity

Kingston University

Details available from School of Humanities

University of Lancaster

Locating the Nineteenth Century: MA in Romantic and Victorian Literature

The Ruskin Programme:

Ruskin Studies

Ruskin and the Cultural Tour

University of Leeds

Romantic Formations

University of Liverpool

English Renaissance and Romantic Literature

University of Nottingham

English Literature (Pathway in Long Nineteenth Century)

University of Oxford

M.St. English (1780-1900 Strand)

Queen Mary, University of London

English Studies: Writing and Society 1700-1820

University of St Andrews

Master's Degree in Romantic Studies

University of Sheffield

Nineteenth-Century Studies

University of Stirling

The Gothic Imagination

University of Sussex

English Literature (Romantic Studies Components)

Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture (component courses in Romantic Studies)

University of Wales, Bangor

MA / Diploma English

University College Worcester

Nineteenth Century Studies

University of York:

Representations and Contexts, 1750-1850

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/gsp/contexts.htm

Romantic and Sentimental Literature, 1770-1830

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/gsp/romantic.htm

Writing Women in Britain and North America, 1740-1820 http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/gsp/writingwomenfp.htm

MA/Diploma in The Age of Revolutions 1750-1850 http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/gsp/modernhistory.htm

Other Taught Masters Degrees in 18th Century and Victorian Studies:

Birkbeck College, University of London

MA and MPhil courses - see website

Keele University

Victorian Studies

University of Leeds

Victorian Literature, including Theatre

University of Liverpool

Victorian Literature

University of Reading

Victorian Literature and Culture: Relocating Modernity

Royal Holloway, University of London

MA Victorian Media and Culture

University of Southampton

MA Eighteenth-Century Studies (Chawton)