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BARS Issue No. 40 July 2012 ISSN 0964-2447 Editor: David Higgins School of English University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT [email protected] Reviews Editor: David O‘Shaughnessy Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies IN THIS ISSUE: University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Editor's Column . 1 [email protected] Notices . 1 Events . 5 BARS Conference Reports . 8 Copley Award Reports . 13 President: Nicola J. Watson Early Career and Postgraduate English Department Column . 16 Faculty of Arts Reviews . 18 The Open University 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] Editor’s Column Notices Welcome to the first 2012 number of the BARS Bulletin and Review. I am sorry to say that it BARS WEBSITE will be David O‘Shaughnessy‘s final Bulletin as Studies Reviews Editor. David has done great service to www.bars.ac.uk the Association in this important role, and I am personally grateful for his hard work, Anyone wanting to place advertisements, or professionalism, and good humour. An with other requests regarding the website should invitation for applications to take over from him contact our website editor, Padmini Ray Murray, has gone out via the mailbase. The role may either by email ([email protected]) prove particularly attractive to an early career or by post at the Department of English Studies, academic looking to develop their contribution University of Stirling, FK9 4AL. to Romantic studies. Please send a short CV (two sides maximum) and covering email (500 words maximum) explaining why you are a BARS MAILBASE suitable candidate to me at d.higgins@ leeds.ac.uk by 1 August 2012. If you have any Romantic Romantic As a BARS member, you are entitled to receive questions about the role, please feel free to messages from the electronic BARS mailbase. contact David (d.p.o-shaughnessy This advertises calls for papers, events, @warwick.ac.uk). resources and publications relevant to Romantic Apart from an excellent range of reviews, this studies. If you would like to join, or post a issue contains the usual notices and calls for message on the mailbase, please contact Neil for papers. There are also reports on conferences Ramsey, the co-ordinator, by email likely to be of interest to members – including ([email protected]) with your full name the very successful BARS Early Career and and email address. Information about the Postgraduate Conference at Newcastle mailbase, along with copies of archived University – and a new section of reports from messages, can be found on the mailbase website: recipients of the Stephen Copley Postgraduate www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html Research Awards. These Awards are one of the significant ways in which the Association supports Romantic studies and I hope that members will agree that it‘s valuable to learn BARS MEMBERSHIP more about the excellent use to which they are put. Members can ask for notices to be placed on the As always, I would love to hear from members mailbase, on the website, and in the Bulletin. with ideas for material that could be included in The website has a page dedicated to new books the journal. I would like to maintain the range published by members, and you should let the Association and quality of conference reports, while also editor know if you would like your recent work adding other material: details of large research to be listed. Similarly, if you are editing a collection of essays or a special issue of a projects, accounts of public engagement activity, reviews of plays and exhibitions, and so on. journal, or working on a collaborative project, Please do email me with any ideas, and have a we can usually place notices calling for great summer. contributions on the website as well as in the David Higgins Bulletin. Editor The annual subscription for BARS membership is £25 (waged) and £10 British 1 (unwaged/postgraduate). Members receive and cannot be made retrospectively. Applicants copies of the BARS Bulletin and Review twice a must be members of BARS (to join please visit year and can join the electronic mailbase. our website). The names of recipients will be Membership is necessary for attendance at announced in the BARS Bulletin and Review, BARS international conferences. For a and successful applicants will be asked to membership form, please contact the BARS submit a short report to the BARS Executive administrator, Fern Merrills, at: Committee and to acknowledge BARS in their [email protected] thesis and/or any publication arising from the research trip. Reports will also be published in the Bulletin. BARS DAY CONFERENCES Please send the following information in support of your application: BARS day conferences, in almost every case, 1. Your name and institutional affiliation. are organised through the host institution. BARS 2. The title and a short abstract or summary of assists by advertising conferences, advising on your PhD project. the format, and giving early warnings of any 3. Details of the research to be undertaken for likely clashes with other planned events in our which you need support, and its relation to your files. Part of the point of BARS is to act as a PhD project. supportive system nationally, and its 4. Detailed costing of proposed research trip. involvement in planning would partly be to help 5. Details of current or recent funding (AHRC ensure that conferences are as evenly distributed award, etc.). across regions as possible in the course of any 6. Details of any other financial support for one year. BARS cannot underwrite day which you have applied/will apply in support of conferences, but it can sometimes make a the trip. financial contribution of to help the organising 7. Name of supervisor/referee (with email department with costs. address) to whom application can be made for a Individuals or groups who would like to run a supporting reference on your behalf. day conference are invited to contact Dr Angela Applications and questions should be directed Wright ([email protected]). In the to the bursaries officer, Dr. Daniel Cook, event of possible clashes, BARS will assist by University of Wisconsin-Madison liaising between conferences distributed across ([email protected]). Reports by recent bursary the year, or across regions. BARS will actively holders appear later in this number of the solicit proposals. Proposals are also invited for Bulletin. interdisciplinary conferences. NORTH EAST NINETEENTH STEPHEN COPLEY CENTURY POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS This is a new postgraduate research group for work on the long nineteenth century by PhD Postgraduates working in the area of Romantic students and early career researchers in the studies are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley North East of England. North East Nineteenth Postgraduate Research Award. The BARS Century (NENC) aims to create and sustain a Executive Committee has established the awards network of scholars by running monthly reading in order to support postgraduate research. They group sessions and a website, through which are intended to help fund expenses incurred members can discuss any aspect of working in through travel to libraries and archives necessary this period, and can keep updated about relevant to the student's research, up to a maximum of CFPs and other similar events. We hope to £300. Application for the awards is competitive, 2 promote the work being undertaken in the NORSE ROMANTICISM: universities of this region, and to enable collaborative links with other postgraduate THEMES IN BRITISH students and institutions. The group is currently LITERATURE, 1760–1830 jointly organised by the Universities of Northumbria and Newcastle, but includes Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the members from across the region. For more publication of a new edition, Norse Romanticism: details, please see the website: Themes in British Literature, 1760–1830: www.northeast19thcentury.org http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/editions/norse NINETEENTH-CENTURY This collection of texts illustrates how the ancient North was re-created for contemporary COLLECTIONS ONLINE national, political and literary purposes. The anthology features canonical authors (such as This Spring, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is Thomas Gray, William Blake, William delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Walter Scott, and the first four archives in Gale‘s multi-year Ann Radcliffe). Standard editions of these Nineteenth Century Collections Online authors‘ works generally lack the contextual programme. Scholars of the Romantic period – framework and necessary commentary that and Romantic literature especially – will be explain the way in which they repurpose Norse particularly interested in the release of the material. There are also more unusual selections second archive in the programme, Corvey of lesser known writers, whose texts have not Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840. previously been available to modern readers. This unique collection of monographs includes a The range of material presented in the edition wide range of Romantic literature published in has the scope and breadth to allow for new English, French and German. Sourced from research into the Norse-inflected writing during Corvey Abbey in North Rhine-Westphalia, the period. Germany, the Corvey Collection is one of the The anthology shows how a number of writers most important collections of works from the used the Norse tradition to address issues of period. With a special focus on rare works, more political and cultural concern, and to provide than 7,700 titles will be included, comprising new aesthetic models for their poetry.