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, Commodification, Hi . . .
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 . . .
