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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Romantic Studies Masters degrees

 

MAs and taught MPhils in Romantic Studies

 

University of Aberdeen

MLitt programmes includes courses on Romanticism and Genre, Walter Scott and his World, and Jane Austen and the Development of Fiction. 

See website - English Literary Studies

Birkbeck, University of London: MA Romantic Studies

University of Bristol
Romanticism

The School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Graduate and post-graduate courses in Romanticism - see the University website.

University of Cambridge
MPhil English Studies: British Literature 1700-1

University of Glasgow

MLitt in Enlightenment, Romanticism and Nation

King's College London and the British Museum

MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies
This is an interdisciplinary degree drawing upon the skills of scholars from eight departments in King's School of Humanities, alongside those of senior staff at the Museum.

See website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/c18th

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

University of Wales, Bangor
MA / Diploma English

University of Warwick

MA in Pan-Romanticisms

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/postrgrad/propsepctive/masters/panromanticisms/

University College Worcester
Nineteenth Century Studies

University of York:
MA in Romantic and Sentimental Literature, 1770-1830
MA in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

MA in Eighteenth Century Studies: Representations and Contexts 1750-1850

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)

University of York:

MA in Eighteeenth Century Studies: the Global Eighteenth Century