"Romantic Horizons: Pushing the Boundaries of Romantic Studies," (Online Joint Symposium)

Romantic Dialogues and Legacies, Department of English Studies presents a Transcontinental Joint Symposium featuring decorated panels from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana , USA and Durham University, UK. "Romantic Horizons: Pushing the Boundaries of Romantic Studies" will be held online and hosted via Zoom on November 17, 2023 at 3.30 pm UK time. The event focuses on a broad range of writers and themes from John Clare, Disability Studies, a re-discovered Henry Kirke White to the politics of Romantic reading, Jane Austen, PB Shelley as well as Hart Crane among others.

University of Notre Dame Panel

  • Laura Betz,  "John Clare: Sonnets and Nests"

  • Essaka Joshua, "Disability Studies and Romanticism: Staging Interventions"

  • Greg Kucich, "'We poor pilgrims in this dreary maze': Henry Kirke White and the Broken Boundaries of the 'Uneducated Poets'"

  • Ian Newman,  "Beyond the Ballad: Sea Songs and Shanties"

  • Yasmin Solomonescu, "Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature"

Durham University Panel

  • Emily Rohrbach,  “Romantic Contingencies and the Politics of Reading”

  • Sarah Wotton,  “Post-Romantic Relations: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Emily Brontë”

  • Mark Sandy, “'The Silken Skilled Transmemberment of Song' : P. B. Shelley, Romantic Quest, and Hart Crane”

The duration of each presentation is 15 minutes and each panel leads upto to an interactive discussion at the end of the event.

Register now for free: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/romantic-dialogues-and-legacies/romantic-horizons-pushing-the-boundaries-of-romantic-studies/e-dgdqvm

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