{"id":6447,"date":"2026-05-15T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:26:21","slug":"call-for-submissions-special-issue-of-studia-neophilologica-on-thomas-lovell-beddoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6447","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes\u2019s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death\u2019s Jest-Book<\/em>. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica<\/em>, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes\u2019s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes\u2019s life, work, and reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes\u2019s career. Topics might include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Death\u2019s Jest-Book <\/em>as a verse drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s relationships with his Romantic precursors and contemporaries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and Victorian and\/or Modern poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s sense of humour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s political vision<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s engagement with German life and culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and the gothic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s and Romantic, Jacobean, and\/or Elizabethan drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and tragedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and Switzerland  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s letters and other prose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s critical and editorial history<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and evil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes\u2019s revisions  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Beddoes and love<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Please send abstracts of 250\u2013300 words to Andrew Hodgson at a.hodgson@bham.ac.uk<\/a> by Friday 2 October 2026. If accepted, final submissions will be due for submission by Friday 7 January 2028. Please direct any queries to the same address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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