Today we continue our ‘What are you reading?’ series by presenting an interview with Tricia Matthew, Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University. Tricia Matthew is the co-editor of a special issue for the Romantic Pedagogy Commons entitled Novel Prospects: Teaching Romantic Era Fiction, editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), and is currently writing a monograph about sugar, gender, and British abolitionist literature. What new studies of Romantic literature are you reading right now? I’m currently reading The Illustrated Slave by Martha J. Cutter (Georgia UP, 2017), Contested Bodies by Sasha Turner (Pennsylvania, 2017), Wollstonecraft’s Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period by Andrew McInnes (Routledge, 2016), and Annie Persons’ recent essay in Women’s Writing “Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, and Human C . . .
Welcome to a new series of posts on the K-SAA Blog entitled ‘What are you reading?’ We want to use this space to support and encourage discussions relating to the latest Romantic-period scholarship, especially those publications (online and in print) concerned with the second generation of Romantic writers: Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, and their circles. Initially we will be asking Romanticism scholars about new and recent work that they might have encountered that will be of interest to our followers, and then we’ll give them the chance to comment on some of their favorite studies in general. We also want to know about what they might be reading more broadly – contemporary poetry, perhaps, or a new novel… Our third interviewee is Richard C. Sha, Professor of Literature and Philosophy at American University. Professor Sha is the author of three books, the latest of which is Imagination and Science in Romanticism (Johns Hopkins, 2018), winner of the 2018 Jean-Pierre Barric . . .
Welcome to a new series of posts on the K-SAA Blog entitled ‘What are you reading?’ We want to use this space to support and encourage discussions relating to the latest Romantic-period scholarship, especially those publications (online and in print) concerned with the second generation of Romantic writers: Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, and their circles. Initially we will be asking Romanticism scholars about new and recent work that they might have encountered that will be of interest to our followers, and then we’ll give them the chance to comment on some of their favorite studies in general. We also want to know about what they might be reading more broadly – contemporary poetry, perhaps, or a new novel… Our second interviewee is Orrin N. C. Wang. Orrin teaches in the English Department and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of most recently Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Comm . . .
Welcome to a new series of posts on the K-SAA Blog entitled ‘What are you reading?’ We want to use this space to support and encourage discussions relating to the latest Romantic-period scholarship, especially those publications (online and in print) concerned with the second generation of Romantic writers: Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, and their circles. Initially we will be asking Romanticism scholars about new and recent work that they might have encountered that will be of interest to our followers, and then we’ll give them the chance to comment on some of their favorite studies in general. We also want to know about what they might be reading more broadly – contemporary poetry, perhaps, or a new novel. Our first interviewee is Bysshe Inigo Coffey. Bysshe is a teaching associate at the University of Exeter and his current project is a collaboration, with Anna Mercer and Nora Crook, to edit the Shelley notebook Library of Congress MSS. 13, 290, MSS. He is finishin . . .
