CFP: John Keats’s Early Poems, 1814-1817
Keats-Shelley House Rome, ItalyAn Academic Seminar organized by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation, and supported by the British School at Rome 31 October 2014 at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, Rome In order to mark the bicentenary of the composition of ‘Imitation of Spenser’ (1814), John Keats’s earliest known poem, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats [...]
Helena Sanson e Katharine Mitchell, “Nuove prospettive su donne e genere nell’Italia del secondo Ottocento” @ Sala Giunta
Sala Giunta – Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne Via Cartoleria, 5, Bologna, Italy26 maggio 2014 ore 16.30 Sala Giunta Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne (Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna) Locandina
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
The British Library 96 Euston Road, Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom@ The British Library 3 October 2014 – 20 January 2015 Two hundred rare objects trace 250 years of the Gothic tradition, exploring our enduring fascination with the mysterious, the terrifying and the macabre. From Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Stanley Kubrick and Alexander McQueen, via posters, books, film and even a vampire-slaying kit, [...]
Franca Dellarosa, “Talking Revolution. Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics, 1782–1814”
This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), whose name was for a long time only associated with the foundation of the Royal School for the Blind in 1791. A former sailor, tavern keeper and editor of a paper, as of the turbulent 1790s Rushton [...]
Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania), “Jane Austen and Social Media”
Sala Giunta – Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne Via Cartoleria, 5, Bologna, ItalyColleghi e studenti sono cordialmente invitati Mercoledì 22 ottobre 2014, ore 12,00 presso la Sala Giunta del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne (Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna). Locandina
Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants. Application Deadline: November 1.
The Pforzheimer Grants are awarded each year to defray travel expenses incurred in pursuing archival and/or special-collections research related to British Romanticism and literary culture, 1789-1832. Preference is given to projects involving authors featured in the bibliography of the Keats-Shelley Journal, the Association’s annual publication. Advanced graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars working outside [...]
Edward Rushton and Romantic Liverpool: A Bicentennial Conference
The School of the Arts, University of Liverpool 19-23 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, United Kingdom2014 marks the bicentenary of the death of poet Edward Rushton (1756-1814), Liverpool’s most radical voice in the Age of Revolution. Rushton was an uncompromising abolitionist and antislavery fighter, as well as a champion of human rights at large. In a varied career, he also kept a tavern, became a bookseller, edited a newspaper, campaigned [...]
Being Human – Festival of the Humanities
Link to the website Being Human is the UK’s first national festival of the humanities. Between 15 and 23 November 2014, the festival will engage people across the UK with innovative research. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, [...]
PhD Studentships in Romanticism
AHRC funding for UK/EU arts and humanities doctoral research students The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in conducting research into British literature and culture of the Romantic period. The DTP, a collaboration between the universities of Birmingham, Birmingham City, De Montfort, Leicester, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent, provides research [...]
“The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror”, a cura di Lilla Maria Crisafulli e Fabio Liberto
The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror examines late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British theatre and drama with the conviction that they made an essential contribution to the aesthetic and ideological complexity of the British culture of the day. The essays collected in this volume seek to capture the richness and diversity of British Romantic theatre [...]