The judges of the BARS 2026 First Book Prize received a large number of excellent nominations for this year’s prize. Discriminating amongst such a strong field was necessarily very challenging but the judges are now pleased to announce the following shortlist: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lindsey N. Chappell, Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamison Kantor, Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joey S. Kim, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation<\/em> (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic<\/em> (UCL Press, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Sharp, Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colleen Taylor, Irish Materialisms<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yin Yuan, Alimentary Orientalism: Britain\u2019s Literary Imagination and the Edible East<\/em> (Bucknell University Press, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year’s judging panel is chaired by Professor Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge), and includes Dr Susan Civale (Canterbury Christ Church University), Professor Daisy Hay (University of Exeter), Dr Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill University), Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman (University of Glasgow), Dr Emily Paterson-Morgan (The Byron Society), and Dr Amy Wilcockson (Queen Mary University of London).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The prize will be awarded at this year’s BARS International Conference, ‘Romantic Retrospections’, to be held at the University of Birmingham, Wednesday 29 \u2013 Friday 31 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The judges of the BARS 2026 First Book Prize received a large number of excellent nominations for this year’s prize. Discriminating amongst such a strong field was necessarily very challenging… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"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\/6441"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}