Friday 25th July 2025 In 2004, a special issue of Romanticism on the Net brought together existing work on queering Romanticism and proposed a list of suggestions for how such scholarship might expand.1 Despite… Read more »
Building on last autumn’s rehearsed reading of The Tryal and subsequent panel at BSECS 2025, members of the Baillie Working Group are keen to meet again this summer (virtually) to discuss further… Read more »
The BARS Blog is the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the UK’s leading national organisation for promoting the study of Romanticism. The blog is maintained by… Read more »
Book proposals are invited for a series called Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, published by Anthem Press (http://www.anthempress.com/). Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series… Read more »
‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’ Deadline: 18th April 2025 While the long nineteenth century is not immediately associated with playfulness, scholars recognise it as a period that revolutionised play. Games… Read more »
The Jane Austen Society of the UK (registered charity number 1200422 – https://janeaustensociety.org.uk/) will be celebrating this important anniversary in 2025. One of the events which the Society is hosting is… Read more »
The Scarlet Thread of Murder. An Album of Victorian Murderers. Moving from the Newgate Novel tradition at the beginning of the 19th century, through De Quincey’s aesthetic musings on the… Read more »
Eighteenth-Century Plant Studies This projected volume is a collection of interdisciplinary humanities essays on how plants were perceived, represented and understood in the long eighteenth century, with special attention to… Read more »
We are seeking new contributors for the BARS Review. Please fill out THIS FORM to let us know what kind of books you may be able to review for us. Any queries… Read more »
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers for presentation at the 2025 John Keats Conference. Our conference theme, John Keats in 2025: John Keats at Hampstead, has been broadly conceived to… Read more »