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Monthly Archives: July 2021
Project Launch: The Year of Gothic Women
The year 2023 marks the bicentenary of both Ann Radcliffe’s death and two major publications for Mary Shelley: the first edition of Valperga and the second edition of Frankenstein, which… Read more »
CFP: Romanticism and Environmental Humanities
Abstracts are invited for a new special issue of Studies in Romanticism planned for Spring 2023, “Romanticism and Environmental Humanities,” guest edited by Noah Heringman (University of Missouri). Since the… Read more »
UCSL-BARS Bursary
In association with the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (UCSL), BARS is delighted to confirm the continuance of the jointly funded Scottish Romanticism Research Award scheme, which is open to… Read more »
Five Questions: Joanna Rostek on Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age
Joanna Rostek is Junior Professor of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media Studies at the University of Giessen and Interim Professor of English Literature at the University of Munich. She has… Read more »
Five Questions: Brecht de Groote on Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation
Brecht de Groote is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Ghent. He has worked and published on a wide range of… Read more »
2021 BARS First Book Prize Shortlist Announced
The judges for the 2021 BARS First Book prize, chaired by Professor Francesca Saggini, are delighted to announce a shortlist of four exceptional books, drawn from a strong list of initial… Read more »
Keats House online event: ‘Keats V Shelley’
23 July, 5pm BST ‘The Feast of the Poets’ was a poem written by Leigh Hunt, first published in 1811. The poem took a satirical swipe at poets good and… Read more »
BARS Digital Events ‘Seeing Through Whiteness’
29 July, 5pm BST This roundtable centres The History of Mary Prince (1831) as a profound challenge to Romanticism and as precursor to many arguments about whiteness to be made… Read more »
#Shelley200 roundtable on the ‘Revolutionary Shelley’
4 August 2021, 7pm BST This free roundtable event, to be held on Zoom, will invite an international gathering of Shelley scholars to discuss Shelley’s revolutionary poetics, politics, and legacy…. Read more »