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Bars Notices BARS Issue No. 42 June 2012 ISSN 0964-2447 Editor: David Higgins School of English University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT [email protected] Reviews Editor: Susan Valladares Worcester College Walton Street IN THIS ISSUE: Oxford OX1 2HB [email protected] Editor's Column . 1 Notices . 1 BARS Events . 5 Conference Reports . 8 President: Nicola J. Watson Copley Award Reports . 11 English Department Early Career and Postgraduate Faculty of Arts Column . 14 The Open University Reviews . 15 Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK 7 6AA [email protected] Secretary: Kerri Andrews Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Strathclyde McCance Building 16 Richmond Street Glasgow G1 1XQ [email protected] Treasurer and Membership Secretary: Angela Wright School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics University of Sheffield Jessop West 1 Upper Hanover Street Sheffield S3 7RA [email protected] BARS MAILBASE Editor’s Column As a BARS member, you are entitled to receive messages from the electronic BARS mailbase. This advertises calls for papers, events, Welcome to the first issue of the Bulletin for resources and publications relevant to Romantic 2013, published slightly later than planned but studies. If you would like to join, or post a well before the biennial conference at the end of message on the mailbase, please contact Neil Studies July. The programme for Southampton looks Ramsey, the co-ordinator, by email great and (who knows) perhaps the weather will ([email protected]) with your full name hold... and email address. Information about the This number of the Bulletin contains a bumper mailbase, along with copies of archived Reviews section, testament not only to Susan messages, can be found on the mailbase website: Valladares‘s assiduousness, but also to the www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html enthusiasm of BARS members who carry out this important work. There are also reports by recent holders of the Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award, accounts of BARS MEMBERSHIP recent conferences at Leeds and Edge Hill, and some calls for papers. Of particular interest Members can ask for notices to be placed on the might be the call for the BARS Early Careers mailbase, on the website, and in the Bulletin. Romantic Romantic and Postgraduate Conference to be held in The annual subscription for BARS membership Grasmere next March. is £25 (waged) and £10 (unwaged/postgraduate). As always, please contact me if you have any Members receive copies of the BARS Bulletin material for inclusion in the Bulletin. I look and Review twice a year and can join the forward to catching up with many of you in electronic mailbase. Membership is necessary for attendance at BARS international for Southampton. conferences. For a membership form, please David Higgins contact the BARS administrator, Fern Merrills, Editor at: [email protected] BARS DAY CONFERENCES Notices BARS day conferences, in almost every case, are organised through the host institution. BARS assists by advertising conferences, advising on the format, and giving early warnings of any BARS WEBSITE likely clashes with other planned events in our Association files. Part of the point of BARS is to act as a www.bars.ac.uk supportive system nationally, and its involvement in planning would partly be to help Anyone wanting to place advertisements or with ensure that conferences are as evenly distributed other requests regarding the website should across regions as possible in the course of any contact our website editor, Matthew Sangster one year. BARS cannot underwrite day ([email protected]). conferences, but it can sometimes make a financial contribution of to help the organising department with costs. British 1 Individuals or groups who would like to run a 7. Name of supervisor/referee (with email day conference are invited to contact Dr Angela address) to whom application can be made for a Wright ([email protected]). In the supporting reference on your behalf. event of possible clashes, BARS will assist by Applications and questions should be directed liaising between conferences distributed across to the bursaries officer, Dr. Daniel Cook, the year, or across regions. BARS will actively Lecturer in English, University of Dundee solicit proposals. Proposals are also invited for ([email protected]). Reports by recent interdisciplinary conferences. bursary holders appear later in this number of the Bulletin. We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2013 round of Stephen Copley Postgraduate STEPHEN COPLEY Research Awards: Stephanie Dumke (University of Durham) POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH Lucy Kellett (University of Oxford) AWARDS Christine Mangan (University College Dublin) Robin Mills (University of Cambridge) Postgraduates working in the area of Romantic Alys Mostyn (University of Leeds) studies are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Bethan Roberts (University of Liverpool). Postgraduate Research Award. The BARS Executive Committee has established the awards in order to support postgraduate research. They are intended to help fund expenses incurred ROMANTICISM AND through travel to libraries and archives necessary to the student's research, up to a maximum of PHILOSOPHY £300. Application for the awards is competitive, and cannot be made retrospectively. Applicants Members of BARS who are also Facebook users must be members of BARS (to join please visit might be interested in the Facebook page our website). The names of recipients will be 'Romanticism and Philosophy'. This is a announced in the BARS Bulletin and Review, noticeboard for news and materials relating to and successful applicants will be asked to the fields of Romantic literature, philosophy and submit a short report to the BARS Executive intellectual history (and beyond), including Committee and to acknowledge BARS in their books, articles, reviews, clips, conferences, thesis and/or any publication arising from the seminars, exhibitions, job vacancies, research trip. Reports will also be published in studentships, funding grants, whims and oddities. the Bulletin. The page is updated daily (almost) and visitors Please send the following information in are free to post their own material. Feel free to support of your application: visit and 'like' for updates! 1. Your name and institutional affiliation. www.facebook.com/romanticismandphilosophy 2. The title and a short abstract or summary of your PhD project. 3. Details of the research to be undertaken for which you need support, and its relation to your PhD project. 4. Detailed costing of proposed research trip. 5. Details of current or recent funding (AHRC award, etc.). 6. Details of any other financial support for which you have applied/will apply in support of the trip. 2 CFP: GOTHIC STUDIES precisely does this affirmative attitude toward subjective and artistic regeneration square with Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Blake's tortured affect, especially when this Sensibility follows from a desire to transcend the physical Guest Editors: Dr. Christopher Bundock (Huron body, the very matrix of sensibility? If Blake College) and Elizabeth Effinger (Western) embodies horror, he is also horrified by the body's limitations. How, then, does art— Within the frame of the late eighteenth-century particularly Blake's own art—respond to this Gothic revival, this special issue of Gothic problem? How does he make new kinds of Studies explores the relationship between bodies to embody desires differently? English poet and engraver William Blake and We are particularly interested in papers that particularly disruptive affective intensities consider the impact this ―thrust[ing] aside‖ by expressed at the level of image, text, and critical and of the body has for Blake‘s thought and art. reception as well as their extension into What is the work of horror in Blake? What, if contemporary adaptations. While a critical body any, generative potential is there in the of work exists on the relationship between Blake restlessness of Blake‘s tortured, gothic bodies? and the Gothic broadly—and in spite of an What is the cost of Blake‘s investment in horror obvious fascination with a nexus of aesthetic as a privileged affect? Does Blake‘s appeal to categories such as the grotesque, perverse, and horror and the Gothic challenge or render macabre—Blake's focus on affects like physical counterfeit his humanism? How does Blake‘s disgust and horror, specifically, have garnered revisioning of the body as an intensive site of little sustained critical attention. This special horror invite new modes of thinking about the issue seeks to redress this gap by opening up a human? How do the horrors of Blake‘s material dialogue between Blake and his gothic bodies (dis)figure or embody the horrors of sensibility that centers on the affective, aesthetic, larger discursive bodies? and philosophical implications of a physical While this collection follows in the spirit of body and sensorium that turns against itself. recent critical projects such as Blake 2.0 Registering the contestation between (Palgrave 2012) and Blake, Modernity and introjection and expulsion, the abject – Popular Culture (Palgrave 2007) – important Kristeva‘s term for a ―massive and sudden studies that foreground the continuing relevance emergence of uncanniness, which […] now of Blake in contemporary culture – it also harries me as radically separate, loathsome‖ (2) distinguishes itself by interrogating the – is frequently figured in Blake as a monstrous particular affinities between Blake and the Polypus, organic life in its merely vegetative, embodied experiences of revulsion, abjection, abhorrent state. Other examples of Blake‘s and horror. Given this topic especially, Blake's ―body horror‖ appear in the body turned inside illustrations may well play a central role in some out, revealing organs ―Dim & glutinous as the contributions. And we do hope to be able to white Polypus,‖ an uncanny ―Fibrous reproduce a certain number of his visual Vegetation‖ that seems less like animating flesh artworks.
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