By Anna Mercer Follow Laura Blunsden on Twitter. Thanks to the support of the BARS Stephen Copley Research Award, I was able to visit the manuscript archives at the British… Read more »
By Anna Mercer We received a number of very high quality applications for the BARS Communications Assistant 2022-23 position. The Executive Committee are delighted to announce that there will be… Read more »
By Emily Paterson-Morgan Editors: James Rovira and Julian Knox The editors welcome chapter proposals for the forthcoming anthology Romanticism and Heavy Metal. Like the collections Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth,… Read more »
By Matthew Sangster An Inventive Age: Writing of the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1830, Studies in Romanticism, 61.2 (Summer 2022). Cover featuring a watercolour by Thomas Hornor, c. 1817, of the rolling… Read more »
By Jack Orchard We are delighted to publish this report by Gerard Lee McKeever, the latest winner of the Scottish Romanticism Research Award. Postgraduates and postdoctoral scholars working in any… Read more »
By Anna Mercer In June 2020, the British Association for Romantic Studies announced its unequivocal support of the Black community, its condemnation of all forms of racism and its commitment… Read more »
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 Given the reliance of so many Romanticism scholars on digital research throughout the pandemic, it felt like a good time to update this list of online resources… Read more »
By Emily Paterson-Morgan This roundtable, Poetic Form and Biological Form, addressed the explosion of experimental ideas about form in literature and the natural sciences in the Romantic period, seeking to… Read more »
By Emily Paterson-Morgan Online, interdisciplinary conference 12th and 13th September 2022 The long-eighteenth century was a time of continual transformation. In the two hundred years between 1650 and 1850, rapid… Read more »