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Sandy White, at the University of Southampton, sends details of a bicentenary symposium on Mansfield Park, which will be hosted by Gillian Dow at Chawton House Library on Saturday 8th March and which features a number of excellent speakers:

Mansfield Park at Chawton House
A Bicentenary Symposium at Chawton House Library

Saturday 8th March 2014: 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Speakers:

Katie Halsey, (University of Stirling),
‘Mansfield Park: Then and Now’

Deidre Shauna Lynch, (University of Toronto),
‘Quoting Fanny: On Editing Mansfield Park’

Anthony Mandal, (Cardiff University)
‘1814: A Bad Year for the Novel’?

Mary Ann O’Farrell, (Texas A&M University)
‘The Arbitrary in Austen’

Delegate rate, including refreshments and lunch: £40
Concessionary rate: £33

For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mansfield-park-at-chawton-house-registration-8970181053

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Source: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=156

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By Honor Rieley

By mattsangster by Matthew Sangster ‘What is a Poet?’, Wordsworth asks in the Preface to the 1802 edition of Lyrical Ballads, the capital falling inevitably into place. His answer has become to a large extent a critical truism, but looking at accounts of the other poets working contemporaneously with his early career helps to make clear how strange it […] …read more

Source: http://www.romtext.org.uk/the-living-poets-of-1801/

By Anthony Mandal by Matthew Sangster The list of living poets below is taken from the Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801, pp. 487–91; the original can be viewed here. The version below is reformatted for the web and annotated to provide further information on the listed poets. For this web version, I’ve inserted equals signs between […] …read more

Source: http://www.romtext.org.uk/resources/bibliographies/poetical-register-checklist/

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Five Questions returns in style with an interview with Dr Kerri Andrews, Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Hailed by Tim Fulford as ‘the doyen of Yearsley Studies’, Kerri is also interested in the broad sweep of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary culture, and has published on Robert Southey, Charlotte Smith, William Cowper and William Wordsworth, among others. In this interview, though, we keep the focus on Kerri’s work on Yearsley, discussing her recently-published monograph, Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, Patronage and Poetry: the Story of a Literary Relationship and her new three-volume edition of The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley, published this month by Pickering & Chatto.

1) How did you first become interested in Ann Yearsley?

I was right at the start of my PhD: I knew I wanted to write about women writers and how they accessed print culture, but I didn’t know which women writers I wanted to work on. I was browsing in the Special Collections at the Brotherton Library in Leeds when I came across a pamphlet in which was …read more

Source: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=149

By sarahsharp223@gmail.com by Sarah Sharp, University of Edinburgh The tercentenary of the Hanoverian succession of 1714 has provided the stimulus for an exciting and highly visual exhibition at the British Library, which traces the changes in British culture taking place between 1714 and 1830. Focusing on the daily lives of Georgians, the exhibition charts what British citizens […] …read more

Source: http://www.romtext.org.uk/review-georgians-revealed/

Haydon’s painting (1816-20), Keats in oval speaking to neighbour

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Source: http://richardmarggrafturley.weebly.com/blog/30c3-sprachlos-in-hamburg

Haydon’s painting (1816-20), Keats in oval speaking to neighbour

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Please see below for a new Call for Papers for a fascinating-sounding conference on literary periodisation, to be held at All Souls College, Oxford on the 3rd of June 2014. Clare Bucknell, one of the organisers, writes:

“We want to start an academic conversation about the categories in which scholars, critics, institutions and anthologies subdivide literary history, and we intend to scrutinise the kinds of social or disciplinary bias that underlie the boundaries of literary-historical study. We hope that the subject will be of great interest to Romantic scholars, as there are many provocative questions it might raise – for instance:

– when does ‘late eighteenth-century’ become ‘Romantic’?

– what does the institutional history of ‘the Romantic period’ say about the interests and biases of English as an academic discipline?

– are certain genres and forms conceived to be characteristic of ‘the Romantic period’? If so, why – and what does this tell us about the thinking behind periodisation?”

The full CfP is below; abstracts are due on February 1st.

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PERIODISATION: PLEASURES AND PITFALLS

A one-day conference at All Souls College, Oxford, June 3rd 2014

Keynote Speaker: Professor James Simpson, Harvard

What do we mean by ‘medieval’? When does ‘late …read more

Source: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=144