The Early Careers and Postgraduate Conference for The British
Association for Romantic Studies
ROMANTIC LOCATIONS
At Dove Cottage and the Jerwood Centre, Grasmere
Wednesday 19th March
1200: Those who have requested transfers will be picked up from Windermere Station.
1300 – 1345: Tea and Registration (at Jerwood Centre)
1345 – 1400: Welcome
1400 – 1630: Afternoon Sessions
Panel One: ‘That’s the Spot?’
 Kate Ingle (Lancaster) – Personal Place-names and Dorothy Wordsworth’s
Writing of Grasmere
 Helen-Frances Pilkington (Birkbeck) – ‘Plead for thy peace, thou beautiful
romance / of nature’: Wordsworth's opposition to the Kendal and Windermere
Railway
 Polly Atkin (Lancaster) – ‘Most Constant and Most Fickle Place!’: rethinking
Wordsworth’s local poetry
Panel Two: ‘Complicating Romantic Space’
 Daniel Eltringham (Birkbeck) – The Cumbrian Exception: upland enclosure,
‘Michael’ and anti-pastoral’
 Lucy Johnson (Chester) – ‘Vexed Perspectives: Troubling the Aesthetics of
Space in History of a Six Weeks’ Tour’
 Anna P.H. Geurts (Sheffield) – Un-Romantic Locations: the common view
1630 – 1700: Tea
1700 – 1815: Early Evening Session
Panel Three ‘Getting out of Britain’
 Alexis Wolf (Birkbeck) – Taking Root Abroad: The Life Writing of Katherine
Wilmot and her Contemporaries
 Honor Rieley (Oxford) – Unromantic Location?: Representing Emigration to
Canada in the Early Nineteenth Century
 George Stringer (Keele) – A Place in the Sun: relocating the Self in eighteenthcentury representations of India
1815 – 1915: Plenary Lecture
Professor Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster) – The Summit of British Romanticism
1915: Drinks Reception (Dove Cottage Museum)
2000: Walk to Thorney How, for dinner at 2030.
Thursday 20th March:
0930 – 1045: Morning Session
Panel Four: ‘Imagination and Reality’
 Thomas Tyrrell (York) – The map, the territory, and the small cloud between
Scafell and Great Gavel
 Serena Trowbridge (Birmingham City) – ‘Each in his narrow cell’: Graveyard
locations and the Poetry of Mortality
 Lawrence Yoneta (Bristol) – Shelley’s Grecian Inspiration from Italian
Experience
1045 – 1115: Tea
1115 – 1230: Morning Session
Panel Five: ‘Selves and Others’
 Enit K. Steiner (Université de Lausanne) – Jane Austen’s Persuasion: Moving
well in the drawing-room, moving well in the city
 Leanne Stokoe (Newcastle) – ‘The Misguided Imaginations of Men’: Adam
Smith, Jeremy Bentham and the Principle of Self in Shelley’s Speculations on
Morals and Metaphysics
 Philip Aherne (King’s College London) – Incomplete Communion: The
Reception of the Conversation Poem
1230 – 1330: Manuscripts Presentation
Jeff Cowton – The Potential of the Wordsworth Trust’s Collections
Jeff will outline the vast array of resources available for researchers at Dove Cottage
and the Jerwood Centre, and show us a rare glimpse of some of Wordsworth’s original
manuscripts.
1330 – 1415: Lunch
1415 – 1530: Seminars
Jeremy Davies (Leeds) – A Winter in Utopia: Shelley at Tremadoc
Helen Stark (Newcastle) – Locating the Nation in William Godwin’s Essay on
Sepulchres
Christopher Donaldson (Lancaster) – Romantic Borderlands: Scott and the Solway
Coast
1530 – 1645: Afternoon Session
Panel Six: ‘Nations’
 Katherine Fender (Oxford) – Wordsworth, Wanderings and the Welsh Sublime
 Julia Coole (Keele) – Scott and the Production of Scotland
 Li-hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) – Wordsworth and the
American lakes
1645 – 1715: Tea
1715 – 1830: Early Evening Session
Panel Seven: ‘Literary and Institutional Networks’
 Emma Curran (Surrey) – Placing Ann Batten Cristall in the Johnson Circle
 Gordon Bottomley (Lancaster) – Locating Joanna: William Wordsworth and the
youngest Hutchinson sister
 Helen Williams (Northumbria) – Writers’ Houses and Romantic Literary
Tourism
2000: Dinner at Traveller’s Rest Pub, for those who have booked in advance
Friday 21st March
0930 – 1045: Morning Session
Panel Eight: ‘Borderlands’
 Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square (Oxford) – The ‘Lulling Medicine’ of the
Natural World: The Blessing of Place in Mary Shelley’s Matilda
 Hannah Britton (University of St Andrews) – ‘Beside the Portal Doors’:
Between Place and Space in the Poetry of John Keats
 Joanna Taylor (Keele) – Drawing the boundaries round the ‘co-existent
multitude’: the Coleridges’ poetics of space
1045 – 1115: Tea
1115 – 1230: Morning Session
Panel Nine: ‘Splendid Prospects’
 Rebecca Ladds (Nottingham) – Shattered Castles to Mountain Sides: The
Boundless Space of Byron’s Closet Dramas
 Colleen English (University College Dublin) – Romanticism and Irish
Topography: Mary Tighe’s Killarney Sonnets
 Carolyn Dougherty (York) – Text and materiality at Hardwick Park, County
Durham
1230 – 1300: Presentation
Newcastle University students will present work they have done at the Jerwood Centre,
demonstrating the kinds of opportunities available to research students.
1300 – 1345: Lunch
1345 – 1500: Afternoon Session
Panel Ten: ‘Representing the Romantic City’
 Craig Lamont (Glasgow) – The Course of the Clyde: Reading Change in
Georgian Glasgow Poetry
 Tristan Burke (Manchester) – Byron’s Don Juan, London by Lamplight and the
Textual City
 Mary Shannon (Roehampton) – London’s Romantic Strand and the Business of
Amusing the Public
1500 – 1600: Plenary Lecture
Professor Nicola Watson (Open University) – Dorothy Wordsworth’s shoes and other
rituals of romantic location
1615: Pick-up time for those taking the conference transport to Windermere Station.