Dr. Madeleine Callaghan, 14 March The University of Derby’s Enlightenment and Romanticism Research Cluster are thrilled to announce the return of the Midlands Romantic Seminar. Our first in-person speaker, Dr Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield), will speak… Read more »
19 March 2024, 8pm-9.30pm GMT Event Details In his Guide to the Lakes, William Wordsworth famously denounces the larch tree (Larix decidua) as a ‘spiky tree’ that causes ‘injury’ and ‘deformity’ to his Lakeland… Read more »
We’ve recently published our hundredth Five Questions interview on the BARS Blog – not quite within the blog’s first ten years, but not far off. If you want to catch… Read more »
New Romantic Circles Praxis Series Volume Edited by Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow) While modern scholars often focus on examining Romantic-period works’ receptions around the times of their original publications,… Read more »
On January 19, 1824, New York City’s African Theatre staged its last known production: a one-man character sketch show performed by its principal actor James Hewlett.[1] The theatre had opened… Read more »
Dear All, Many thanks to everyone who’s submitted proposals for papers or sessions for ‘Romantic Making and Unmaking’ – it’s been brilliant watching the flood of great research ideas come… Read more »
Italy and the Irish Romantics: Networks, Nations, and Literary Encounters 1798-1848 My doctoral project explores the literary connections between Italy and Ireland in the fifty years spanning the 1798 United… Read more »
We’re delighted to have had such a good response to our calls for ‘Romantic Making and Unmaking’ – we have an excellent array of session calls, and many fascinating abstracts… Read more »
Before Christmas we launched the ‘Romantic Reimaginings’ video project, designed to broaden the scope of Romantic studies and diversify our audience here at BARS. By utilising the benefits of short… Read more »
We write to encourage you to submit a paper or panel proposal for 2024’s joint meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) and the International… Read more »