{"id":471,"date":"2014-11-12T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2014-11-12T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:29:21","slug":"bars-first-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"BARS First Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Readers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Readers.jpg\" alt=\"Readers\" width=\"979\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Readers.jpg 979w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Readers-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Readers-624x348.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The British Association for Romantic Studies<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">is delighted to announce the launch of<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The British Association for Romantic Studies<br \/>\nFirst Book Prize<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between January 2013 and January 2015. In keeping with the remit of the British Association for Romantic Studies, it is designed to encourage and recognise original, ground-breaking and interdisciplinary work in the literature and culture of the period 1780-1830. The prize will be awarded to the value of \u00a3250 and will be presented at the BARS biennial conference, \u2018Romantic Imprints\u2019, to be held at Cardiff University in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eligibility and nomination procedures<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The competition is open to scholarly monographs by authors who have not published a monograph before. Books must be nominated through the BARS membership. Nominations should attest to the importance of the book within the field, detailing its particular strengths and describing the nature of its original contribution. They should be no longer than one side of A4 in length. Please send nominations to the Secretary of BARS, Helen Stark (<a href=\"mailto:Helen.Stark@newcastle.ac.uk\">Helen.Stark@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>) by the closing date, January 31, 2015. <a title=\"BARS Exec\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/bars\/committee.php?menu=7\" target=\"_blank\">The BARS Executive<\/a> will provide the panel of judges, which will be chaired by <a title=\"E J Clery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/english\/about\/staff\/ejclery.page\" target=\"_blank\">Professor E.J. Clery, University of Southampton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Association for Romantic Studies is delighted to announce the launch of The British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=471\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}