The Early Careers and Postgraduate Conference for The British
Association for Romantic Studies
Romantic Connections:
Networks of Influence, c.1760-1835
Thursday May 31st
5pm: 'Sixpenny Romanticism' with Gary Kelly (Research Beehive 2.20)
Friday June 1st
9am: Registration, Research Beehive
9:50am: Introduction
10-11:30: Morning Panel Sessions
Competition and Masculinity 2.20. Research Beehive, Old Library Building
 David Snowdon (University of Sunderland) – ‘Writing to Impress The Fancy:
The Non-Collaborative Prizefight Chroniclers’
 Catherine Redford (University of Bristol) – ‘The Problem of Influence in
Romantic Last Man Literature’
 Imke Heuer (University of Southampton) – ‘A Stupendous Soul in a
Diminutive Body’
The Coleridge Connection 2.22. Research Beehive, Old Library Building
 Philip Aherne (King’s College London) – ‘Coleridge: The Teacher and the
Talker’
 Beatrice Turner (Newcastle University) – ‘A Bare and Solitary Branch:
Hartley Coleridge Re-writes his Family Tree’
 Joanna Taylor (Keele University) – ‘The Transition of Debt Between Lord
Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’
Rereading the Romantic Age G.07, Daysh Building
 Clara Dawson (Durham University) – ‘Romanticism Contested: Tennyson and
Browning in the 1830s’
 Jen Morgan (Salford University) – ‘Historical Readings of Shelley’s ‘The
Mask of Anarchy’ in the 1830s’
 Trenton Olsen (University of Minnesota) – Evolving Influence: Revisions of
Darwin and Wordsworth in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda’
11:30am: Tea Break
11:45am: Connections Roundtable G.07, Daysh Building
With a particular emphasis on collaborative work in the field of Romanticism.
Speakers taking part in this roundtable will include Kerri Andrews (Strathclyde), Jeff
Cowton (Curator at Dove Cottage) Matthew Grenby (Newcastle), and Gary Kelly
(University of Alberta).
1:15pm: Lunch
2-4pm: Early Afternoon Panels
Connecting the Empire 2.20. Research Beehive, Old Library Building
 Victoria Woolner (University of Glasgow) – ‘Where Shall I Begin?
Correspondence Networks and the Image of Quebec in The History of Emily
Montague
 Kalissa Hendrickson (Arizona State University) – ‘Imperial Attachments:
Objects and Empire’
 Kristin Lindfield-Ott (University of the Highlands and Islands) – ‘Britannia
and Her Sisters: Romantic Emblems of Nationhood’
 Trisha Liu (University of York) – ‘Defined By The Victim: Warning Against
a Cook-Centric View of Hawaiians’
Politics and the Personal 2.22. Research Beehive, Old Library Building
 Cato Marks (University of the West of England) – ‘My Life has for Several
Years Been a Theatre of Calamity: Caleb Williams and the Theatrum Mundi
Trope’
 Alison Morgan (University of Salford) – ‘Starving Mothers and Murdered
Children in Cultural Representations of Peterloo’
 Sophie Coulombeau (University of York) – ‘Ne suis-je pas son mari? Francey
Burney, Charlotte Smith and Cross-Channel Conjugality’
 Jessica Morgan (University of Salford) – The Monstrous Body Politic:
Medical Language and Political Reform in the Romantic Press
Engaging Past Forms G.07, Daysh Building
 Bethan Roberts (University of Liverpool) – Landscape, Influence and
Autonomy in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets
 Alys Mostyn (University of Leeds) – ‘Paratext and Intertext in the
‘Introductory Epistle’ to Walter Scott’s The Fortune’s of Nigel
 Danielle Barkley (McGill University) – ‘Glitter and the Gothic: Description
and Difference in Two Romantic Genres
 Jayne Winter (Newcastle University) – ‘Wordsworth and German Literature’
4pm: Tea Break
4:30pm: Late Afternoon Panel Sessions
Conjuring Communities 2.20. Research Beehive, Old Library Building
 Jennifer Orr (University of Oxford) – ‘Fostering an Irish Writers’ Circle: the
Poets of Crambo Cave (1766-1816)’
 Jon Quayle (Newcastle University) – ‘Realising Paradise: Percy Shelley and
the Forming and Reforming of Utopian Communities’

Alexandra Appleton (Royal Holloway) ‘To Tell You the Truth, the Whole
Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Reviews and Critiques of the Theatre
Royal, Liverpool’
Paradigms of Communication 2.22. Research Beehive, Old Library Building
 Rose Pimentel (University of St Andrews) – ‘Transforming Spaces: Stoicism
and the Bluestockings’
 Bill Hughes (University of Sheffield) – ‘Sociability, Antagonism, and
Dialogue: Communicative and Strategic Action in English ‘Jacobin’
Literature’
 Clare Webster (Newcastle University) – ‘Sara’s Willing Suspension of
Disbelief: Love and Drama in The Eolian Harp’
Romantic Lineage G.07, Daysh Building
 Joanna Malecka (University of Glasgow) – ‘A Mirror Gallery: Carlyle’s
(Re)vision of German Romantic Writing in the Richer Essays’
 Paige Tovey (Durham University) – ‘Countless Cross-Fertilizations: Gary
Snyder as a Post-Romantic Poet’
 John Stefanie (University College, Cork) ‘Visions of the Poet: Authorship,
Creativity and Romantic Communities on Film’
6pm: Stephen Copley Plenary: Professor Jon Mee
G.07, Daysh Building
7pm: Wine Reception (Research Beehive), followed by dinner (please notify us prior
to the day, if you wish to reserve a space bars_rc@yahoo.co.uk)