The 1822 eruption of Vesuvius fed into contemporary discussions and imaginings on the themes of disaster, change, and the power and beauty of the natural world. It was also a focus for… Read more »
Leuven, 26-27 June 2023 As one of the oldest and most widely practised forms of reflection on vernacular literatures, Shakespeare criticism has helped shape modern literary scholarship worldwide. The mutual… Read more »
Want to write for the BARS Blog? Get in touch with a proposal for our series ‘On This Day’. This series is about Romantic bicentenaries, and has been running since July 2015. We… Read more »
4-5 November 2022, King’s College London Over the last three years, the Radical Translations Project, funded by the AHRC, has worked to uncover the mobility of revolutionary language – tracking not only… Read more »
11 November 2022, Institut Français, London Kensington Why is there so much global inequality? What would an equal society look like? What do the terms liberty and equality mean to… Read more »
The Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere is home to the works of many exciting authors, particularly those with a local or regional connection. The aim of my visit this year… Read more »