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Post: CFP–Romantic Boundaries (Special Issue of Romantic Textualities)

Venice - The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1834, oil on canvas, view 2 - National Gallery of Art, Washington

This June, the BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference gathered researchers from around the globe to celebrate and to appreciate Romanticism and its legacies at the University of Edinburgh by exploring the theme of ‘boundaries’ … Continue reading

Post: Jeremy Corbyn, Romanticism and Vogon Poetry

A Vogon from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series reading a poem

Last week, Jeremy Corbyn tweeted an advert for Poetry for the Many, his anthology of poetry co-edited with Len McCluskey, with a quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy. This post explores the confused response to Corbyn’s use of Shelley and ill-made comparisons to Vogon poetry by various parts of the UK media. Continue reading

Post: Introducing our new Digital Editor: Andrew McInnes

Portrait of Andrew McInnes

Romantic Textualities is delighted to announce that we have appointed Dr Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill University) as our new Digital Editor, whose role will be to oversee and expand the journal’s offerings beyond the numbered … Continue reading

Post: CFP—In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads (Special issue of Romantic Textualities)

The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes tethered off at the garden of the Reveillon workshop, Paris, on 19 October 1783.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Altre Parole / In Other Words (2015) describes switching from one language to another as crossing from one side of a body of water to its opposite shore. Inspired by this metaphor, … Continue reading

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