BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference
Romantic Connections: Networks of Influence, c.1760-1835

Friday 1st June 2012
Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University

Thursday May 31st
5pm: 'Sixpenny Romanticism' with Gary Kelly (Research Beehive 2.20)
Friday June 1st
9am: Registration, Research Beehive

9:50am: Introduction

10-11:30: Morning Panel Sessions

Competition and Masculinity2.20, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (chaired by Helen Stark)

  • David Snowdon (University of Sunderland) – ‘Writing to Impress The Fancy: The Non-Collaborative Prizefight Chroniclers’
  • Catherine Redford (University of Bristol) – ‘The Problem of Influence in Romantic Last Man Literature’
  • ImkeHeuer (University of Southampton) – '”That monstrous sport of Nature” - Deformity and Identity in Joshua Pickersgill'sThe Three Brothers and Byron's The Deformed Transformed’

The Coleridge Connection2.22, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (chaired by Jennifer Orr)

  • Philip Aherne (King’s College London) – ‘Coleridge: The Teacher and the Talker’
  • Beatrice Turner (Newcastle University) – ‘A Bare and Solitary Branch: Hartley Coleridge Re-writes his Family Tree’
  • Joanna Taylor (Keele University) – ‘The Transition of Debt Between Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’

Rereading the Romantic AgeG.07, Daysh Building (chaired by Alison Morgan)

  • Clara Dawson (Durham University) – ‘Romanticism Contested: Tennyson and Browning in the 1830s’
  • Jen Morgan (Salford University) – ‘Historical Readings of Shelley’s ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ in the 1830s’
  • Trenton Olsen (University of Minnesota) – ‘Evolving Influence: Revisions of Darwin and Wordsworth in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda’

11:30am: Tea Break

11:45am: Connections RoundtableG.07, Daysh Building
With a particular emphasis on collaborative work in the field of Romanticism.

Speakers taking part in this roundtable will include Kerri Andrews (Strathclyde), Jeff Cowton (Curator at Dove Cottage) Matthew Grenby (Newcastle), and Gary Kelly (University of Alberta).

1:15pm: Lunch

2-4pm: Early Afternoon Panels

Paradigms of Communication2.22, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (chaired by Matthew Ward)

  • Rose Pimentel (University of St Andrews) – ‘Transforming Spaces: Stoicism and the Bluestockings’
  • Bill Hughes (University of Sheffield) – ‘Sociability, Antagonism, and Dialogue: Communicative and Strategic Action in English ‘Jacobin’ Literature’
  • HongxiaXu (Edinburgh University) – ‘The Textual History of “There was a Boy” and Wordsworth’s Changing Concerns of Education’
  • Clare Webster (Newcastle University) – ‘Sara’s Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Love and Drama in The Eolian Harp’

Politics and the Personal2.22, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (chaired by Matthew Grenby)

  • Cato Marks (University of the West of England) – ‘‘Let poor volk pass’: Hannah More’sVillage Politics (1792) and Writing the South West Poor out of Political Life’
  • Alison Morgan (University of Salford) – ‘Starving Mothers and Murdered Children in Cultural Representations of Peterloo’
  • Sophie Coulombeau (University of York) – ‘Ne suis-je pas son mari? Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and Cross-Channel Conjugality’
  • Jessica Evans (University of Salford) – ‘The Monstrous Body Politic: Medical Language and Political Reform in the Romantic Press’

Engaging Past FormsG.07, Daysh Building (chaired by Beatrice Turner)

  • Bethan Roberts (University of Liverpool) – ‘Landscape, Influence and Autonomy in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets’
  • AlysMostyn (University of Leeds) – ‘Paratext and Intertext in the ‘Introductory Epistle’ to Walter Scott’s The Fortune’s of Nigel’
  • Danielle Barkley (McGill University) – ‘Glitter and the Gothic: Description and Difference in Two Romantic Genres’
  • Jayne Winter (Newcastle University) – ‘Wordsworth and German Literature’

4pm: Tea Break

4:30pm: Late Afternoon Panel Sessions

Connecting the Empire2.20, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (chaired by Clara Dawson)

  • Victoria Woolner (University of Glasgow) – ‘Where Shall I Begin? Correspondence Networks and the Image of Quebec in The History of Emily Montague’
  • Kalissa Hendrickson (Arizona State University) – ‘Imperial Attachments: Objects and Empire in Elizabeth Inchbald'sAppearance is Against Them’
  • Trisha Liu (University of York) – ‘Defined By The Victim: Warning Against a Cook-Centric View of Hawaiians’

Conjuring Communities2.20, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (chaired by Jon Mee)

  • Jennifer Orr (University of Oxford) – ‘Fostering an Irish Writers’ Circle: the Poets of Crambo Cave (1766-1816)’
  • Jon Quayle (Newcastle University) – ‘Realising Paradise: Percy Shelley and the Forming and Reforming of Utopian Communities’
  • Alexandra Appleton (Royal Holloway) ‘To Tell You the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Reviews and Critiques of the Theatre Royal, Liverpool’

Romantic LineageG.07, Daysh Building (chaired by ImkeHeuer)

  • Joanna Malecka (University of Glasgow) – ‘A Mirror Gallery: Carlyle’s (Re)vision of German Romantic Writing in the Richter Essays’
  • Paige Tovey (Durham University) – ‘Countless Cross-Fertilizations: Gary Snyder as a Post-Romantic Poet’
  • Stefanie John (University College, Cork) ‘Visions of the Poet: Authorship, Creativity and Romantic Communities on Film’

6pm: Stephen Copley Plenary: Professor Jon MeeG.07,Daysh Building

‘“If any thing can be called a man’s property it is the produce of his mind”: The Literary Fund and Claims of Literature (1802)’

7pm: Wine Reception (Research Beehive), followed by dinnerat Marco Polo: This restaurant is about 10minutes walk from the conference venue. Prices vary and are available on the restaurant’s website. We hope you are able to join us. Please do notify us prior to the day, if you wish to reserve a space:.