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 »
‘Rowley’s Ghost’ is an online text resource, cataloguing as many creative responses to Thomas Chatterton and examples of his influence as can be identified, from 1770 to the present day…. Read more »
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 »
The future of Rydal Mount, the final home of world-renowned poet William Wordsworth, has been secured thanks to a landmark acquisition by the Wordsworth Trust, working in partnership with The… Read more »
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 »
When my wife died at the age of 33, Mary Shelley was a natural companion in my journey through grief. Widowed two hundred years before me when Percy Shelley drowned… Read more »
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 »
The ‘Romanticism Now’ series on the BARS Blog discusses where Romanticism pops up in contemporary culture. In this instalment, Chloe Wilcox (BARS Communications Fellow) looks at 1816: The Year Without… Read more »
This week we have a new blog contribution from Eli S, discussing two films that feature the “lesbian sublime.” Eli S is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature in Germany…. Read more »
We are thrilled to welcome to the blog Dr Adam Neikirk, one of the BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere Early Career Fellows. His blog post below discusses his ongoing project “Writing like Wordsworth”,… Read more »