HELPING TO RUN THE CLARE SOCIETY
From Sue Holgate, Chair of the John Clare Society Committee We should like to invite Clare Society members new and old to consider joining our committee, which has a number… Read more »
Monthly Archives: August 2024
Nineteenth Century Studies Association: Call For PAPERS, “Fusions of Culture, Time, and Space,” 46th Annual Conference New Orleans, Louisiana March 27-31, 2025
Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2024 Website: https://ncsaweb.net/2025-conference-information/ If America were a melting pot, New Orleans would be its capital. Even before the United States gained control of the city with… Read more »
Symposium Programme: ‘Robert Fergusson’s Textual Legacies in the 250 Years Since his Death’
Date: Friday 6th September, 9:30am – 4.45pm Location: Studio Two, Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow. Tickets available here via Eventbrite. We are inviting scholars and enthusiasts on Friday 6th September to the University of… Read more »
Romantic Poets in the Wild #1: Jamison Oughton
I first met Jamison Oughton through an old Facebook group entitled ‘Contemporary Romantic Poetry’ and we have been friends for many years. We connected over our shared enthusiasm for the… Read more »
Call for Contributors: Romantic Poets in the Wild
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 »
The Shelley Conference 2024: Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations – Conference Report
Lydia Shaw, Shelley Conference Postgraduate Helper, here details for the BARS Blog, an overview of the Shelley Conference: ‘The Shelley Conference, Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations’ took place on 28-29th June… Read more »
The Shelley Conference 2024: Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations – Exhibition Report
Keerthi Vasishta, Postgraduate Helper at the Shelley Conference 2024 discusses below the exhibition at Keats House which ran alongside the conference: The Shelley Conference 2024 featured a special exhibition from… 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 »
Call for Papers: Global Blake Symposium – Musical Afterlives
Call for Papers: Musical Afterlives Global Blake Symposium: Musical Afterlives is a one-day symposium exploring the musical settings of Blake’s poetry as well as his inspiration on classical and popular… Read more »
BARS Executive: Appointed Positions 2024-2026
Dear BARS Members, The BARS Executive is a friendly and collegial gathering of Romanticists from a wide range of career stages, which supports activities and initiatives in the field undertaken… Read more »