Anna Fleming on Romantic Locations and after
In the second of our pieces following on from Romantic Locations, Anna Fleming, of the University of Leeds, reflects on the conference and its aftermath. – – – – –… Read more »
Author Archives: Matthew Sangster
Nicola Watson on Marilyn Butler
All members of BARS will have been very sad to hear of the death of Professor Marilyn Butler on 11 March 2014 after a long illness. There will be a… Read more »
Thomas Tyrrell on Romantic Locations
Thomas Tyrrell, of Cardiff University (pictured above), has very kindly written up his impressions of the Romantic Locations conference for the blog (below). Enjoy reliving the conference if you were… Read more »
CfP: Making, Breaking and Transgressing Boundaries: Europe in Romantic Writing, 1775-1830
Please see below for the CfP for Making, Breaking and Transgressing Boundaries: Europe in Romantic Writing, 1775-1830, which will take place later this year. As well as responses to the CfP,… Read more »
Five Questions: Ian Haywood on Romanticism and Caricature
Ian Haywood is Professor of English at the University of Roehampton and co-directs Roehampton’s Centre for Research in Romanticism. He has published widely on literature, history and politics from the late eighteenth… Read more »
The Royal Literary Fund and the Perils of Authorship
Please see below for details of a symposium and evening event exploring the history of authorship using the archive of the Royal Literary Fund; these will be held at the… Read more »
Five Questions: Judith Hawley on Amateur Theatricals
Judith Hawley is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her doctoral work at Oxford was on Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, which remains one… Read more »
Five Questions: On the Fashionable Diseases Project
In addition to talking to scholars who’ve recently completed monographs and editions, I thought that it’d be interesting to talk with teams of scholars who are currently working on large… Read more »
Periodisation: Pleasures and Pitfalls – CfP Extended and Registration Open
Registration for Periodisation: Pleasures and Pitfalls, which takes place on June 3rd this year at All Souls College Oxford, is now open (and also free!). The deadline for abstracts has… Read more »
Five Questions: Mary Fairclough on the Romantic Crowd
Mary Fairclough is a Lecturer in English Literature in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, where she also completed her PhD; before… Read more »