Romantic Circles Pedagogies Hangouts

This collection came together as the result of the annual Romantic Circles-NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) Pedagogy Prize. Lindsey Eckert and Lissette Lopez Szwydky, co-winners of the 2014 prize, separately submitted projects that included technology as central components of their courses. Together, the six essays in this volume speak to the value of collaboration,...

Romantic Circles Pedagogies Hangouts

Pedagogies Hangouts is a multimedia series that brings together scholars and teachers of Romanticism at all levels to talk about the possibilities and challenges of teaching in the twenty-first century.

This electronic edition makes available the works of the mostly unknown late-eighteenth-century poet and teacher Catherine Upton, including The Siege of Gibraltar (1781), an epistolary prose narrative, and Miscellaneous Pieces (1784), a collection of poetry and prose. These two works appear to represent the whole of Upton’s small oeuvre, and they contribute to both the body...

This collection thinks the “rights” of the negative against the more common association of the term “rights” with human rights and rights that can be posited. Such rights, despite their seeming liberalism, produce a normative notion of the person which is in the end biopolitical, and moreover, in assuming that rights can always be posited, they assume the primacy of the public sphere. The...

This collection grows out of a 2014 conference panel at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), in which five of our six authors shared their varied experiences leading study-abroad courses and field schools to various parts of England and France. These experiences ranged from do-it-yourself plans to full partnerships with third-party organizers, with a similar range...

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Romanticism and Technology

This collection came together as the result of the annual Romantic Circles-NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) Pedagogy Prize. Lindsey Eckert and Lissette Lopez Szwydky, co-winners of the 2014 prize, separately submitted...

November 2017

Pedagogies Hangouts

Pedagogies Hangouts is a multimedia series that brings together scholars and teachers o

July 2017

The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces

This electronic edition makes available the works of the mostly unknown late-eighteenth-century poet and teacher Catherine Upton, including The Siege of Gibraltar (1781), an epistolary prose narrative, and Miscellaneous Pieces (...

June 2017

Romanticism and the Rights of the Negative

This collection thinks the “rights” of the negative against the more common association of the term “rights” with human rights and rights that can be posited. Such rights, despite their seeming liberalism, produce a normative notion of the person...

June 2017

Study Abroad in the Lake District

This collection grows out of a 2014 conference panel at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), in which five of our six authors shared their varied experiences leading study-abroad courses and field schools to various...

May 2017

Teaching Romanticism with the Contemporary

This special issue explores the notion that many of the forms, ideas, and practices inaugurated or exemplified in the Romantic period continue to shape and drive our contemporary discourses. Literary critics, cultural and political theorists, and...

April 2017

News & Announcements from the RC Community

MMLA 2018 Irish Studies << UPenn CFPs
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updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 8:55amMidwest Modern Language Association deadline for submissions: Thursday, April 5, 20182018 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference “Consuming Cultures” November 15-18 Kansas City, MO Permanent Section Call for Papers: Irish Studies   See full post (external link) 		Consuming Cultures and Manuscript Evidence << UPenn CFPs
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updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:56pmResearch Group on Manuscript Evidence at the Midwest Modern Language Associationdeadline for submissions: Wednesday, April 4, 2018Consuming Cultures and Manuscript Evidence at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 15-18 November, Kansas City, Missouri  The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, in keeping with the M-MLA... See full post (external link)
CFP: Health, Gender, and Embodiment << UPenn CFPs
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updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:59pmMedHum Dosis: Medical Humanities and Social Justicedeadline for submissions: Tuesday, April 10, 2018CFP: Health, Gender, and Embodiment The theme for our Summer 2018 issue will be health, gender, and embodiment. To be embodied selves, tied to our human form in sickness and in health, offers unique challenges,... See full post (external link) 		International Conference Literature (&), (In)tangible Heritage << UPenn CFPs
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updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:58pmCEntre for English, Translation and Anglo-Potuguese Studies, NOVA-FCSHdeadline for submissions: Friday, June 15, 2018International Conference Literature (&), (In)tangible Heritage FCSH, NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal) 11-12 October 2018     Throughout 2018, we are... See full post (external link)
Call for Submissions *Resources for American Literary Study* (Penn State UP) << UPenn CFPs
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updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:56pm*Resources for American Literary Study*deadline for submissions: Monday, October 1, 2018Resources for American Literary Study, a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship, has returned to Penn State University Press and is inviting submissions for upcoming volumes. Covering all periods of American literature, ... See full post (external link) 		CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 MMLA CONVENTION “CONSUMING CULTURES” ENGLISH II: ENGLISH LITERATURE 1800-1900 << UPenn CFPs
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updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:55pmMidwest Modern Language Associationdeadline for submissions: Thursday, April 5, 2018In keeping with this year’s MMLA theme, “Consuming Cultures,” I welcome papers that address issues of consumption in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Possible topics include, but are certainly not limited to: print culture and readership; leisure... See full post (external link)
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