January 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. Upcoming events and the past month’s bicentennial celebrations, new books and and conference calls for papers, award announcements 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!)Upcoming Events and Openings- Join the poetry ambassadors at Keats House, London, on February 9 for an "Agreeable Variety" of afternoon poems! And for more upcoming events at Keats House—including a guided walk of London, a talk on poetry and consumption, and more afternoon poems—take a look at their schedule, here!https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1221398781821964290?s=20- On February 10th, Sharon Ruston will be speaking about the science of life and death in Shelley’s Frankenstein at the Royal Society in London! Find more information here.https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1220654979654078464?s=20- Upcoming events by the Byron Society include “Byron and Scottish Poetry,” “Blake, Byron, and the Myth of Cain,” and the 2020 Newstead Abbey Byron Society Conference, “Byron and Loss.” See below for more info about these events:https://twitter.com/byron_society/status/1221716595040563201?s=20- The Keats-Shelley House in Rome is set to reopen on February 24th--this month, they shared an update on the restoration-in-progress:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1220650478628933632?s=20- On February 29th, the Shelley Theatre and the University of Warwick will be hosting "Shelley Legacies Heritage Day," to celebrate the legacies of the Shelley family in Bournemouth and Boscombe. For more details check here! https://twitter.com/DavidJCoates/status/1222939296065294337?s=20- Turner and the Thames: Five Paintings, the first exhibition of original Turners at his house in Twickenham, opened January 10th and runs until March 29th:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1218182437122920449?s=20- Registration is open for “Mary Wollstonecraft and Dissent: A Celebration,” which will be held at the Newington Green Meeting House on April 24-25. For more information, including speakers and keynotes, take a look at the event’s website!https://twitter.com/MW_Fellowship/status/1215570216769466368?s=20 Romantic Happening: Events from the Past Month- This year's MLA Convention in Seattle featured what our followers described as some "transformative" and "brilliant" talks and panels on Romanticism--see below for some live-tweets from the Convention!https://twitter.com/ChrisWa49417818/status/1215738758995169280?s=20https://twitter.com/kateasinger/status/1216075597056659456?s=20- Also at MLA, the K-SAA hosted our annual awards dinner, to recognize the work of scholars of Romanticism, among them our two 2019 Distinguished Scholars, Mary Favret and Duncan Wu! See our blog for more awards announcements, including the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants and the K-SAA Essay Prize.https://twitter.com/leilathebrave/status/1216232734567227392?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1219197880059203585?s=20https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1223317319209902080?s=20
- On January 20th, Keats House and The Keats-Foundation hosted a reading of Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes"!
https://twitter.com/KeatsHouse/status/1219342472444305414?s=20
Conference Calls for Papers
- The British Association for Romantic Studies is now inviting expressions of interest for the 2023 International Biennial Conference. The deadline is February 23. For more details, see the BARS blog.
– The 2020 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, "Byron and Loss," is accepting proposals. The conference will be held on April 24-25th at Newstead Abbey, and the deadline for proposals is February 1. Find more details here. Additionally, The Maureen Crisp Young Scholars Fund is offering five £100 travel bursaries for postgraduate students and ECRs presenting papers at “Byron and Loss.” More information can be found here.
– Proposals for “Global Blake: Afterlives in Art, Literature and Music,” are due February 29th. The conference will be held from September 11-12 at the University of Lincoln. Full details can be found on here.
- Full details are now available for "John Keats in 1820," the Seventh Bicentennial John Keats Conference to be held May 15-17, 202 at Keats House, London. The deadline for proposals is March 2. For more information, take a look at the Keats Foundation site.
– “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.
New Books, Blogs, Reviews, and Other Resources
- In a Conference Q&A posted this month on the K-SAA blog, Prof. John Gardner discussed Peterloo and the second-generation Romantics' reactions to Wordsworth's attraction to sites of massacre. Read the full post here.
- The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815-1823, by Will Bowers, was published this month:
https://twitter.com/LimeTreeBowers/status/1214520505115561984?s=20
- Also published this month, Hrileena Ghosh's John Keats's Medical Notebook:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1219223814321602560?s=20
- The Year Without a Summer, a new novel by Guinevere Glasfurd, reimagines responses to the 1816 eruption of Mount Tamboro, including its place in the famous story of the writing of Frankenstein:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1221774273989300225?s=20- Michael Demson's Masks of Anarchy: The History of a Radical Poem from Percy Shelley to the Triangle Factory Fire tells the stories of Percy Shelley and Pauline Newman--all as a graphic novel! See a recent review from "The Real Percy B Shelley" below:https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1221887938461605888?s=20
- And while you're on the "The Real Percy B Shelley" site, take a look, too, at Ciarán O'Rourke's review of Shelley's Revolutionary:
https://twitter.com/Shelley_at_224/status/1219783771978981376?s=20
Miscellaneous
- Keats made an appearance in a BBC article about a recently rediscovered painting by Joseph Wright of Derby:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1212736019738570752?s=20
- The English National Ballet performed Le Corsaire, loosely based on Byron's The Corsair. See a review from the Independent below:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1215248924644081664?s=20
- Frankenstein featured as one of the top 10 books about loneliness in the Guardian:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1214218064138399745?s=20
- Meanwhile, Angela Wright wrote for the BBC's "History Extra" about Frankenstein as one of five Gothic novels that reflected the anxieties of the age in which they were written:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1216157442494599168?s=20
- Byron was at the center of a debate over what poetry is appropriate in a churchyard:
https://twitter.com/KSAAcomm/status/1217352553517715458?s=20
- And The Keats Letters Project marked the 200th anniversary of Keats' last letter to America:
https://twitter.com/KeatsLetters/status/1222983760817401856?s=20