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 »
Call for Papers We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on all aspects of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, their contemporaries and the Romantic period. We also welcome proposals on all topics related… Read more »
22 – 25 May, 2pm-6pm CET Free registration on Eventbrite This conference builds on the recognition that, for a movement that resists easy definitions, Romanticism and its aesthetics have enjoyed a… Read more »
Dear All, We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2025 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career and Postgraduate Researcher Conference, Romantic (Un)Consciousness. A copy of the provisional… Read more »
Organizer: Yu-Hung Tien (University of Edinburgh, UK) In 2023, BARS ran a Digital Event titled “The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia.” Featuring speakers based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and… Read more »
Dear all, Our latest BARS Digital Event is now available on Youtube! Why not visit our channel to watch a talk from Dr Yasser Shams Khan on “Tippoo Saib at Astley’s… Read more »
In December 2024 I received the fantastic news that I had been awarded a Stephen Copley award by BARS, allowing me to travel to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to… Read more »
Gerard McKeever is Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His research is particularly concerned with discourses of improvement; space, place and regionalism; and book history and… Read more »
Clay Franklin Johnson is the author of A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (Gothic Keats Press, 2021). His collection’s eponymous poem was presented at “Ill met by moonlight”: Gothic… Read more »
Friday 25th July 2025 In 2004, a special issue of Romanticism on the Net brought together existing work on queering Romanticism and proposed a list of suggestions for how such scholarship might expand.1 Despite… Read more »