April Social Media Roundup
We’re back again to collect some of the Keats-Shelley related news that came across our social media feeds in the past month. Although a little different than usual, given the many postponements and cancellations of upcoming events due to Covid19, below you will still find information about new digital initiatives and virtual exhibitions, in addition the usual prize and fellowship announcements, new blog posts, and Romantic-related news items. With more being shared on social media than before, it’s very likely we’ve missed something, so if there’s something to add from the month of April, please do let us know–and please let us know, too, of any newly announced virtual events and digital resources. We will be very happy to share widely!
Romantic Happenings: Events and Celebrations from the Past Month
- National Theater Live (at home) streamed Frankenstein, featuring Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch as both the creature and Victor Frankenstein in alternate versions:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1255067512787648512?s=20https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre/status/1255122147879632896?s=20- Dr. Katherine Harris and Dr. Revathi Krishnaswamy held a webinar discussion of the performances!https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1255232477544800263?s=20- And, despite the cancellation of in-person gatherings, we and many others celebrated Wordsworth's 250th birthday virtually:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247171319537577985?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247528690449133568?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247576653284417541?s=20
Upcoming and Ongoing Events and Initiatives:
- Keats House announced a series of online lectures to mark the 200th anniversary of Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"! See our blog for more information about this event.
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1257966626630103040?s=20https://twitter.com/annamercer_/status/1257963045801820160?s=20
- Despite cancelled events, the Byron Society continues to offer Byronic entertainment:
https://twitter.com/byron_society/status/1248879664296275969?s=20
- The Keats-Shelley House's synchronized reading group continues. See below for April's readings to catch up, and then join in yourself this month!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1245312027675037697?s=20https://twitter.com/KeatsHouse/status/1250019989941301249?s=20https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1255156341435297792?s=20- "Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition" continues to grow! We took our own tour this month to take a look at the collections:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1246005325293129729?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1248991896665493505?s=20
Memorials:
- Neil Fraistat, Jeanne Moskal, Deidre Lynch, and others wrote in tribute to Jack Stillinger:https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1246872449368707072?s=20https://twitter.com/jeanne_moskal/status/1246986684874571777?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247228982166204416?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1250772859816984578?s=20
Books, Blogs, and Other New Resources:
- This past month the K-SAA blog featured reflections on Rome during the coronavirus pandemic and an entry in our "Poetic Reflections" series on Shelley's "The Serpent Is Shut Out from Paradise":
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1245267197947252737?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1255554225360207872?s=20- Volume 67 of the Keats-Shelley Journal arrived in our, and many others', mailboxes! For more information about the volume, see our blog here:https://twitter.com/ByronSociety/status/1252708074579689473?s=20- Emily Brand's new book, The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England, was published this month--with a virtual book launch!https://twitter.com/byron_society/status/1247562059992174595?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1250854941238808576?s=20
- A new article on Shelley's Falkner, by Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, was published in Essays in Romanticism:
https://twitter.com/bryn_square/status/1245756797085876225?s=20
- New on the European Romanticisms in Association blog, a post on Leigh Hunt's Parlour at Surrey Gaol:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247128596751233025?s=20
- And new on the Romanticism blog, Stephen Gill writes on Wordsworth and Solitude:
https://twitter.com/Wordsworthians/status/1248967033880031233?s=20
Contests, Fellowships, CFPs, and Other Opportunities:
- The K-SAA is still accepting submissions for our Chatterton250 odes and elegies contest! The deadline is June 1st--see our blog for more information. https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1246007853237899264?s=20- Papers are now being accepted for "Romantic Reputations," a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held (tentatively) on September 18th, 2020 at the University of Nottingham. The deadline for submissions is July 1st, 2020. See below for more information, including contingency planning due to the covid-19 pandemic.https://twitter.com/UoNRomanticism/status/1247538519490215936?s=20- Romantic Circles Reviews and Receptions is calling for bookchat proposals, for those whose work needs an audience due to Covid-19 cancellations. See below for more information about this opportunity!https://twitter.com/RomCircReviews/status/1250432721014288386?s=20https://twitter.com/RomCircReviews/status/1250433096337346560?s=20
- The Teaching Romanticism series at Romantic Textualities is seeking a co-General Editor. See below for information about this appointment:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1257236496135970816?s=20- The Byron Society is accepting applications for their PhD bursary; the deadline is June 1st, 2020. For submission guidelines, see below!https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1245271035286630405?s=20https://twitter.com/byron_society/status/1248880370864488448?s=20 Miscellaneous, or, Romantics in the News:- Shelley's The Last Man continued to be widely discussed in relation to the ongoing pandemic:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1246488726517284869?s=20https://twitter.com/BottingHunt/status/1252383663431413761?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1251527063741313024?s=20https://twitter.com/R_A_Barr/status/1257453416407859200?s=20
- PB Shelley and Keats, too, made an appearance as poets to read or think of in a crisis:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1252191674081689600?s=20https://twitter.com/Keats_Shelley/status/1247858988127006721?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1254103234563751936?s=20- A newly released project, The Ancient Mariner Big Read, features Iggy Pop, Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton, and others reading Coleridge's poem:https://twitter.com/fraistat/status/1251554181380542480?s=20- Keats was quoted in an article on the risk posed to nightingales by climate change:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247882686980435969?s=20- Emily Brand wrote on the scandals of the Byron family for the BBC's HistoryExtra:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1252936727599120384?s=20
- An announcement was made about a Frankenstein museum planned in Bath:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1248574078153261063?s=20
- Jonathan Bate's Radical Wordsworth was reviewed in the Guardian:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1250368764849401857?s=20
- The new Royal Mail Stamps, featuring Romantic poets, arrived!
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1247815998297833477?s=20https://twitter.com/EleanorBryan/status/1248933884127072256?s=20
- Bookriot shared a quiz to bring together Romanticists and fans of boybands: Who said it? Boy Band or Romantic Poets?
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1246875304167125004?s=20
- And we, once again, tried to find a way to fund the purchase of a house of one of the romantics--this time, the home of PB Shelley and his family:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1248248874663211010?s=20