Romanticism and Self-Destruction
The programme for Romanticism and Self-Destruction, which will take place in Bristol on Friday May 9th, is now available on the conference website. The plenary speakers are Andrew Bennett and… Read more »
Author Archives: Matthew Sangster
British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014: Registration Open
Gregory Tate writes with more details of this year’s BSLS conference, including information about speakers, trips and how to register: Registration is now open for the ninth annual conference… Read more »
Romantic Locations Programme
The basic text of the programme for Romantic Locations is reproduced below for your perusal. The full version, in all its carefully-formatted glory, can be downloaded from the BARS website. – – –… Read more »
Thelwall Conference: CfP Extension, Details and Fee Announcement
If you were wavering about whether to put in an abstract for the Thelwall conference this July, you might well be persuaded by the revised announcement below, which includes details… Read more »
Five Questions: Anthony Mandal on Self-Control
Dr Anthony Mandal, Reader in English at Cardiff University, has published widely on Romantic and Victorian fiction and culture, focusing particularly on Jane Austen, book trade history and the Gothic novel. Among… Read more »
Five Questions: Tim Fulford on the Late Poetry of the Lake Poets
Tim Fulford, Professor of English at De Montfort University, is one of the hardest-working scholars in Romantic studies. In the past several years, he has, among other things, edited (with… Read more »
Mansfield Park at Chawton House
Sandy White, at the University of Southampton, sends details of a bicentenary symposium on Mansfield Park, which will be hosted by Gillian Dow at Chawton House Library on Saturday 8th March… Read more »
Five Questions: Kerri Andrews on Ann Yearsley
Five Questions returns in style with an interview with Dr Kerri Andrews, Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Hailed by Tim Fulford as ‘the doyen of Yearsley Studies’,… Read more »
CfP: Periodisation: Pleasures and Pitfalls
Please see below for a new Call for Papers for a fascinating-sounding conference on literary periodisation, to be held at All Souls College, Oxford on the 3rd of June 2014. … Read more »
Tis the Season for Subscribing
The new year approaches ever closer, and at the chime of midnight on New Year’s Eve, BARS subscriptions will fall due. Please take a moment to read the note below… Read more »