Judging panel:
Prof Mary Fairclough (York); Dr Yimon Lo (Tübingen and Leuven); Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland (RCS and Glasgow).
Chair: Prof Simon Kövesi (Glasgow).
2023 BARS First Book Prize Winners:
Runners Up:
Lindsey Eckert (Florida State University), The Limits Of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers (Bucknell University Press)
Laura Kremmel (Niagara University), Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination (University of Wales Press)
Honourable Mention:
Jillian M. Hess (Bronx Community College), How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Oxford University Press)
Winner:
Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews), Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism (Cambridge University Press)
The judging panel would like to thank all entrants to this competition – authors and publishers. We read through and considered so much magnificent work and it was incredibly difficult to choose just these four winners.
To find more information about the BARS First Book Prize, see here.
The BARS Book Prize Panel