New BARS Digital Events Fellow
The BARS Online Lectures Committee are delighted to announce that Francesca Killoran, a PhD student at the University of York, has been appointed as the BARS Digital Events Fellow. We… Read more »
Author Archives: Anna Mercer
On This Day in 1820: The Visionary Heads and William Blake’s attitude towards Death (Part II)
Yesterday, we marked 200 years since William Blake drew ‘Pindar and Lais the Courtesan’ on 18 September 1820. Today, Dr Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University) continues her reflection on Blake’s… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: William Blake draws Pindar the Greek Poet and Lais the Courtesan (Visionary Heads) for John Varley (Part I)
2020 presents yet another exciting year for Romantic bicentenaries. We’ve already shared ‘On This Day’ posts about Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Today we are delighted to… Read more »
Dreaming Romantic Europe, Workshop 3 “Romantic Media”
Conference Report by Alice Rhodes, University of York. On Sunday 28th June 2020 members of European Romanticisms in Association came together for the third meeting of the AHRC-funded Dreaming Romantic… Read more »
Call for Applications: BARS Digital Events Fellow
BARS are inviting applications for a BARS Digital Events Fellow to assist with the BARS Online Lecture Series 2020/21. The Fellowship will last for one year, beginning 1 October 2020…. Read more »
Archive Spotlight: The changing reception of historical novels in periodicals
Today in the ‘Archive Spotlight’ series, we’re delighted to present a post about the changing reception of the historical novel genre across the nineteenth century. Jonathan Taylor and Helen Kingstone… Read more »
BARS/NASSR Joint Conference – Notice of Postponement
The BARS and NASSR Executives, in discussion with the organizing committee at Edge Hill University, have agreed to postpone the joint BARS/NASSR conference, originally scheduled for August 2021, until August… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound is Published
The BARS ‘On This Day’ Blog series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Want to contribute a future post? Get in touch. Today, Amanda… Read more »
Conference Report: North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar, 15 July 2020
Below is a report from the North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar, 15 July 2020 by Rob Sutton (PhD candidate, Manchester Metropolitan University). You can read about how to apply… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: Keats publishes Lamia in his last volume
Today on the BARS Blog we present a post on John Keats and his poem Lamia by Mariam Wassif. The ‘On This Day’ Series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary… Read more »