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 »
As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, environmental collapse, the cost… Read more »
The Year’s Work in English Studies is an annual review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English from 601 to the present; expert critical commentary is provided… Read more »
Call for Articles Polyglot Women as Agents of Transfers in the European Romantic Public Space We are pleased to invite submissions for an edited volume entitled Polyglot Women as Agents of… Read more »
Keats-Shelley Prize 2024 2024’s Keats-Shelley Poetry and Essay Prizes are open. The Chair of this year’sjudging panel is the acclaimed writer, broadcaster and historian Tom Holland. Poets are asked to… Read more »
This call for contributors simultaneously announces a new series on the BARS blog, ’Romantic Poets in the Wild’ (RPW for short)! This will be a series that features creative writers,… Read more »