BARS President’s Report 2018
From BARS President Ian Haywood: I am delighted to be President of BARS at such an exciting time. We are a very busy and resourceful organisation, striving to fulfil our… Read more »
Author Archives: Matthew Sangster
Five Questions: Simon Kövesi on John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History
Simon Kövesi is Professor and Head of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Oxford Brookes University. He tweets as @kovesi1. He has published widely on contemporary fiction (with… Read more »
Five Questions: David Stewart on The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s
David Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Northumbria University. He has published widely on figures including Lord Byron, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Robert Southey and Charles Lamb and on topics… Read more »
Five Questions: Tom Mole on What the Victorians Made of Romanticism
Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on Byron, Romantic-period… Read more »
Call for Papers: Romantic Exchanges, 1760-1840 – 2018 BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference
Call for Papers Romantic Exchanges, 1760-1840 British Association for Romantic Studies Early Career and Postgraduate Conference University of Glasgow, 15–16 June 2018 Keynote Speakers: Professor Gerard Carruthers (University of… Read more »
Call for Papers: Frankenstein – Parable of the Modern Age
Please see below for a Call for Papers from the Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics for a September 2018 conference on Frankenstein in Ingolstadt, close to the very building… Read more »
Five Questions: James Whitehead on Madness and the Romantic Poet
James Whitehead is a Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University; he is also correspondent for the Hazlitt Society and The Hazlitt Review and a former lexicographer for… Read more »
Five Questions: David Fallon on Blake, Myth and Enlightenment
David Fallon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. He has published widely on topics including the debates surrounding the… Read more »
The BARS Review, No. 50 (Autumn 2017)
The Editors, led from this number forward by Mark Sandy, are pleased to announce the publication of the 50th number of The BARS Review, the eighth available in full online… Read more »
BARS Chawton House Travel Bursary
All scholars working on Romantic-Period women’s writing are invited to apply for the 2018 BARS Chawton House Travel Bursary. The BARS Executive Committee has established this award in order to… Read more »