February Social Media Roundup
Another month is behind us, and so we’re back again to collect some of the Keats-Shelley related news that came across our social media feeds in the past month. Recent announcements and upcoming bicentennial celebrations, new books and conference calls for papers, fellowship opportunities and Romantic news appearances—all this and more is collected here in case you missed it! (And, as always, if there’s something we’ve missed, please let us know!)
Announcements
– Alexander Freer won the 2019 K-SAA Essay Prize for his essay “Percy Shelley’s Touch; or, Lyric Depersonalization.” This past month, Freer’s win was marked by Modern Philology, the journal in which the essay was published:
– The Coleridge Memorial Trust is launching a crowdfunding campaign to fund a memorial statue of Coleridge in Ottery St. Mary, his birthplace. More information about this campaign (which officially launches on March 21st) can be found below or on our blog:
– The K-SAA and the Thomas Chatterton Society are holding a contest calling for new odes and elegies to Chatterton, to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet’s death. More information on the contest can be found on our blog, here!
New Books, Blogs, and Other Resources
– This month, the K-SAA, with help from our social media followers, compiled a list of recent publications in the field of Romanticism. Take a look at what’s been published in the last 6 months!
– The Bodleian Digital Library added a new Mary Shelley Manuscript, a fair / draft copy of Mathilda!:
– The New Books Network featured The Wollstonecraftian Mind:
– The most recent issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination published a series of new essays on Romanticism, including several on Mary Shelley:
– The British Newspaper Archive Blog recently told the story of Newstead Abbey:
– The BARS blog “On This Day” series returned with a new post by Emily Paterson-Morgan:
– Bysshe Coffey reviewed John Worthen’s The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelleyfor The Wordsworth Circle:
– A new online publication, The Shelleys in Milan, 1818-2018, investigates the Shelleys’ Milanese experience:
– And for the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, three new biographies were announced:
Upcoming Events
– The Byron Society has a number of upcoming events, including one on Percy Shelley’s doodles. For their full schedule–featuring talks by Drummond Bone, Anna Mercer, Charlotte May, and others–take a look at their website!
– We at the K-SAA announced the 2020 Stuart Curran Symposium, which will be held on October 23rd at Harvard’s Houghton Library. More information will be available soon!
– Mary Wollstonecraft and Dissent: A Celebration will be held on April 24th-25th at Newington Green Meeting House in London. See below for more info about this event!
Conference Calls for Papers and Fellowship Calls for Applications
– The Byron Society of America is sponsoring a panel at MLA in Toronto, “Byron in 1821: A Retrospective.” The MLA Annual Convention will be held January 7-10th, 2021. The deadline for proposals is March 26th 2020. For more information about submissions, please see our blog.
– Queen Mary University of London’s School of English and Drama advertised a posdoctoral position to work with Michael Gamer on “Romantic Melodrama.” See below for more information about this opportunity.
– “Pacific Paratexts,” an interdisciplinary symposium exploring paratexts in writing from and about the Pacific, is accepting proposals. This two-day symposium will be held November 7-8, 2020, at Meji University in Tokyo, Japan. The deadline for proposals is May 1. See the full CFP here.
Miscellaneous; or, Romantics in the News
– A first edition of The Last Man sells for £6,500!
– There was much buzz in Romantic social media circles about Dr. Who’s feature of the famous ghost story contest at Villa Diodati:
– Percy and Mary Shelley featured in the NYT’s review of Clement Knox’s Seduction: A History from the Enlightenment to the Present:
– Byron’s “Darkness,” PB Shelley’s “Mont Blanc,” and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein were among the works that David Higgins and Tess Somervell saw as helping us learn about the climate crisis:
– And Keats (and Byron) featured in recent discussions over the return of the Elgin Marbles: