BARS Exchange

By Isabelle Murray

The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to £300) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Eligible expenses might include transportation to libraries or archives, lodging near libraries or archives (if distant from the researcher’s home), fees or technology costs involved in on-site or on-line access (such as copying or scanning, permissions or equipment requirements). Research projects should have the goal of shedding new light on Galt’s significance in literature, history, socio-political thought or economics. Projects that situate Galt in other fields are also welcome.

Eligible applicants are advanced graduate students (students enrolled in PhD programs at universities around the world); early career scholars (scholars whose doctoral degrees date no more than three years before the application and who have held a permanent or secure academic position for no more than three years), contingent faculty (scholars with PhD degrees who hold part-time or temporary academic positions) or independent scholars (scholars with PhD degrees who do not hold academic positions).

The Grant will be awarded annually. Previous recipients may apply for a second time, but preference will be given to first-time applicants. Applications should be emailed to the Administrator …read more

Source:: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4793

By Rosie Whitcombe

This June, the BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference gathered researchers from around the globe to celebrate and to appreciate Romanticism and its legacies at the University of Edinburgh by exploring the theme of ‘boundaries’ within the context of Romantic-period literature and thought. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘boundary’ as: ‘That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself.’ Such a term seems at odds with the spirit of Romanticist thought, which has long been associated with mobility and boundlessness. Conference delegates aptly addressed the complexity of the concept through various representations of boundaries – both tangible and intangible – from a wide range of viewpoints. To continue such a diverse critical dialogue, in collaboration with Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 (https://www.romtext.org.uk/), we plan to produce a special ‘Romantic Boundaries’ edition of the journal. To widen the scope of our scholarly conversation, not only do we welcome all the conference delegates to consider expanding their conference papers for publications, but we also invite researchers and scholars in general for submissions.

Echoing our conference theme, topics of interest may include, but are …read more

Source:: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4790

By Anthony Mandal This June, the BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference gathered researchers from around the globe to celebrate and to appreciate Romanticism and its legacies at the University of Edinburgh by exploring the theme of ‘boundaries’ … Continue reading → …read more

Source:: http://www.romtext.org.uk/romantic-boundaries/

By Rosie Whitcombe

Romantic Dialogues and Legacies, Department of English Studies presents a Transcontinental Joint Symposium featuring decorated panels from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana , USA and Durham University, UK. “Romantic Horizons: Pushing the Boundaries of Romantic Studies” will be held online and hosted via Zoom on November 17, 2023 at 3.30 pm UK time. The event focuses on a broad range of writers and themes from John Clare, Disability Studies, a re-discovered Henry Kirke White to the politics of Romantic reading, Jane Austen, PB Shelley as well as Hart Crane among others.

University of Notre Dame Panel

• Laura Betz, “John Clare: Sonnets and Nests”
• Essaka Joshua, “Disability Studies and Romanticism: Staging Interventions”
• Greg Kucich, “‘We poor pilgrims in this dreary maze’: Henry Kirke White and the Broken Boundaries of the ‘Uneducated Poets’”
• Ian Newman, “Beyond the Ballad: Sea Songs and Shanties”
• Yasmin Solomonescu, “Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature”

Durham University Panel

• Emily Rohrbach, “Romantic Contingencies and the Politics of Reading”
• Sarah Wotton, “Post-Romantic Relations: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Emily Brontë”
• Mark Sandy, “’The Silken Skilled Transmemberment of Song’ : P. B. Shelley, Romantic Quest, and Hart Crane”

The duration of each presentation is 15 minutes and each panel leads up to to an interactive discussion at the end of the …read more

Source:: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4787

By Amy Wilcockson

We really need your help in completing the project to transcribe Humphry Davy’s notebooks… Read on to see something of Davy’s life two hundred years ago and the kinds of scandal your transcription could unearth…

In January 1823, Humphry Davy was asked by the Commissioners of the Navy Board to investigate why the copper sheeting on the bottom of ships was corroding, reducing the speed of these vessels greatly. He regarded the matter as one of national importance and immediately referred it to the Council of the Royal Society. They set up a Committee but it was Davy alone who investigated the matter. He was sent samples of the copper used to sheathe two naval ships, the HMS Batavia (a former floating battery that was disposed of in 1823) and Leonidas (a thirty-six-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1807). The way that Davy felt called to action, and the patriotic fervour with which he responded, was not unlike the earlier episode of the miners’ safety lamp in 1816. The two episodes would end in a similarly less than ideal manner.

At this point in his life, Davy was largely a man of leisure, …read more

Source:: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4782

By Amy Wilcockson

An expert panel demystifies the process of publishing a monograph in Romantic Studies, responding to your questions.

Date and time

Wed, 27 September 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 BST

Tickets available here!

At BARS’ recent Romantic Boundaries conference, a roundtable on publishing in journals revealed there was considerable appetite for an event demystifying monograph publishing in Romantic Studies. In concert with the Keats-Shelley Association of America, BARS has put together a digital roundtable to try and help with this. This roundtable will be chaired by Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow/BARS) and Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College/K-SAA) and will feature the following contributors:

• Rebecca Colesworthy, Senior Acquisitions Editor at SUNY Press
• Ben Doyle, Publisher for Literary Studies at Bloomsbury (and formerly Emerald and Palgrave)
• Tim Fulford, co-editor of the Liverpool University Press series Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850
• Patricia A. Matthew, co-editor of Oxford University Press’s Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
• Bethany Thomas, Commissioning Editor for Literature at Cambridge University Press

The roundtable will begin with short introductions, but the bulk of the time will be committed to answering questions. These can either be asked live or submitted in advance (please email matthew.sangster@glasgow.ac.uk and ksinger@mtholyoke.edu by Monday September 18th so we can pre-circulate to our contributors).

The …read more

Source:: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4778