K-SAA Spring Celebration and Members’ Meeting Announcement
The Keats-Shelley Association of America are excited to announce the details of our 2021 Spring Celebration and Members’ Meeting: An Interactive Conversation about Book Collecting and Book Hunting, which will be taking place via Zoom on Friday May 7th at 12.30pm EDT / 5.30pm BST.
The event will feature the 2021 Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr Research Grant recipients, Dr Bysshe Coffey and Dr Leila Walker. We invite all attendees – members of the K-SAA and non-members alike – to share items from their own book collections in the chat and during the question and answer session.
To join us on the day, please sign up using the link here.
Bysshe Coffey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Newcastle University.
His British Academy research project examines the phenomenon of ‘High Shelleyanism’, and the differing ideologies and methodologies of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s numerous editors, amateur and professional. It charts the diffusion of Shelley’s works through cheap reprints, illustration, music and networks of influence. Bysshe is constructing an annotated digital gallery of illustrated editions of Shelley, visual representations of the poet, and musical settings of his verse between the years 1851-1922. The website, which is in its initial stages, will go live in 2021.
Leila Walker (CUNY, Queen’s College) is an Emerging Technologies and Digital Scholarship Librarian.
Leila is currently working on a rigorous digital scholarly edition of Elizabeth Kent’s Flora Domestica. In its time, Flora Domestica was one of the more successful publications to come out of the Cockney Circle. Yet no scholarly edition of this hybrid text, which offers a literary anthology in the guise of a botanical resource, is currently available. Leila’s digital edition will enable wider study of Kent’s writing and a richer understanding of the interrelated roles of gender, science, literary history, and social networks in Romantic poetry. Moreover, by centering Kent, a woman author working in a feminized field, positioned at the margins of her literary circle, the social network analysis made possible by a TEI-encoded digital edition will facilitate a better understanding Romanticism’s sociable intertextuality without re-inscribing dominant narratives.
To join us on the day, please sign up using the link here.
