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By Jack Orchard The BARS ‘On This Day’ Blog series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Want to contribute a future post? Get… Read more »

By Anna Mercer The British Association for Romantic Studies invites you to fill out our Members Survey. Your answers will help us to better understand how we can support our… Read more »

By Emily Paterson-Morgan The year 2023 marks the bicentenary of both Ann Radcliffe’s death and two major publications for Mary Shelley: the first edition of Valperga and the second edition… Read more »

By Emily Paterson-Morgan Abstracts are invited for a new special issue of Studies in Romanticism planned for Spring 2023, “Romanticism and Environmental Humanities,” guest edited by Noah Heringman (University of… Read more »

By Emily Paterson-Morgan In association with the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (UCSL), BARS is delighted to confirm the continuance of the jointly funded Scottish Romanticism Research Award scheme, which… Read more »

By Matthew Sangster Joanna Rostek is Junior Professor of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media Studies at the University of Giessen and Interim Professor of English Literature at the University of… Read more »

By Matthew Sangster Brecht de Groote is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Ghent. He has worked and published on a… Read more »

By Anna Mercer The judges for the 2019 BARS First Book prize, chaired by Professor Francesca Saggini, are delighted to announce a shortlist of four exceptional books, drawn from a… Read more »

By Emily Paterson-Morgan 23 July, 5pm BST ‘The Feast of the Poets’ was a poem written by Leigh Hunt, first published in 1811. The poem took a satirical swipe at… Read more »

By Emily Paterson-Morgan 29 July, 5pm BST This roundtable centres The History of Mary Prince (1831) as a profound challenge to Romanticism and as precursor to many arguments about whiteness… Read more »