Romantic Circles Blog

Announcing a one-day conference on Jews and British Romanticism, Saturday 4th February, 2006, at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London.

The conference is one of a series of collaborative events organised by the Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University together the Chawton House Project at the Department of English at the University of Southampton.

Participants include:

Plenary Speaker: Judith Page (University of Florida) “Shylock’s Turquoise Ring: Jane Austen and the “exquisite acting” of Edmund Kean.”

Roundtable on Edgeworth’s Harrington including: Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary ); Anne Janowitz (Queen Mary) and Susan Manly (St Andrews); Rebecca Shapiro (St. Thomas Aquinas College, U.S.A.)

Other papers confirmed: Rebecca Shapiro, Harrington and Ivanhoe
Nadai Valman (University of Southampton) ‘The Waters of Babylon: Exile, Nation and the Jews’

Proposals should be sent to Mary Peace at m.v.peace@shu.ac.uk by Friday 18th November.

Subject to peer-review papers delivered at this conference will feature in a special issue of the CW3 (Corvey Women Writers on the Web) Journal, which will appear at start of 2007. See http://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/cw3journal/index.html for details.

If you are interested in attending this conference please visit the conferences homepage for the Institute of English Studies,(where you will find full details about our events schedule, registration and accommodation, as well as links to organisers’ guidelines and conference facilities.

Dr Mary Peace
Senior Lecturer in English Studies
Sheffield Hallam University

Director of Corvey Project
Editor of Corvey Women Writers on the Web Journal (CW3)

This week’s Poets on Poets MP3 archive features Mary Crockett Hill, author of the award-winning If You Return Home with Food, reading “The Little Black Boy” by William Blake (and includes audio commentary).

At 11:00 A.M., on November 15, in New York, a lecture will be given at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on “The Death of Sardanapalus and The Cult of Byron.” The lecture is one of a series on “Romantic Masters.” Tickets are $22.00.

Further information on the entire series may be found at:
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/ev_cl_program.asp?EventId={899A2174-CD64-48B6-A1FF-963189A2B74E}

Portraits of Coleridge Exhibition – 14 October to 31 December 2005

The Friends of Coleridge Website is currently hosting a small virtual exhibition of Coleridge portraits which are on temporary virtual loan by kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery, Dove Cottage, and Jesus College Cambridge.

The interesting feature is an arrangement showing the original 1804 Northcote portrait alongside two other versions of it.

Paul Cheshire
Friends of Coleridge Website

www.friendsofcoleridge.com

This week Romantic Circles’ Poets on Poets MP3 Archive features Jonah Raskin, author most recently of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and the Making of the Beat Generation, reading both Blake’s “Ah! Sun-Flower” and Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra.”