“Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen fan will wonder what happens to her characters beyond the scope of the novels. When asked by her nieces and… Read more »
Category: Romantic Reimaginings
Drama Queens of the Georgian Period: A Tragic-Comic Entertainment, by Sarah Burdett
Dr Sarah Burdett (Cambridge) tells us about her play, ‘Drama Queens of the Georgian Period: A Tragi-Comic Entertainment’. This blog post accompanies a short film, which you can watch on… Read more »
Austen Retold: How I Brought Murder and Mayhem to Jane Austen’s Emma
Lucy Andrew discusses how she transformed Austen’s Harriet Smith into a feisty detective in her new novel A Very Vexing Murder. As a huge fan of both Jane Austen and… Read more »
Romanticism Now: Why are there so many Jane Austen adaptations coming out in 2026?
Dr Hannah Wilson discusses 2026’s excess of Regency adaptations and reworkings, and discusses why this is a bumper year for Austen. The BBC’s recent TV adaptation of Janice Hadlow’s The… Read more »
Historical Romance, Austen, and Romanticism: Bridgerton Season Four Review by Emma Butler
As an avid fan of historical/Regency romance and period dramas more broadly, as well as a scholar of the long nineteenth century, I enjoy the world that Shonda Rhimes’ adaptation… Read more »
Romantic Adaptations: Situating del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)
In this post, we welcome Dr Jodie Marley back to the BARS blog to discuss a handful of approaches to Guillermo del Toro’s recent adaptation of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac,… Read more »
Mary Shelley and the New Woman: Grant Allen’s uses of the Shelleys’ marriage
A new ‘Romantic Reimaginings’ post, written by Chloe Wilcox, revisits the Canadian science writer Grant Allen’s 19th-century novel The Woman Who Did and its adaptation of the marriage of Percy… Read more »
‘The Aziola’s Cry’: Interview with Author Dr. Ezra Harker Shaw
About The Aziola’s Cry Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and… Read more »
Keats Euphoria: Punk Folk Album Inspired by Keats’s Life and Poems
On February 23, Tom Anderson is releasing his album “Keats Euphoria” with eleven punk-folk songs inspired by Keats life and poems. It’s a homage to Keats, with some direct lifts… Read more »
Ralph Hoyte on Christabel Released
In Greek tragedy, ‘hubris’ is defined as “excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis” (Oxford Languages). I have had much the same sort of feeling since… Read more »