Romantic Making and Unmaking

Online Programme

The programme below (in .pdf and online text) details the synchronous online elements of ‘Romantic Making and Unmaking’, which will take place on Thursday 1st August and Friday 2nd August. Please note that minor changes may be made between the current date and the conference; the version dates will be updated to reflect this.

The programme for the Glasgow elements can be found here.

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BARS 2024 Online Conference Programme

Day 1: Thursday 1st August

12.30pm – 12.50pm – Informal Welcome by BARS President

Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University)

1pm – Parallel Panels A

A1: Making and Unmaking the Romantic-Period Literary House Museum in the Contexts of Colonialism

Roundtable chaired by Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University), with participants from the ‘Addressing the Histories and Legacies of Colonialism in Literary House Museums: Dove Cottage and Beyond’ project.

  • Jeff Cowton (Wordsworth Grasmere)
  • Joanna Brown (Royal Holloway)
  • Lizzie Dunford (Jane Austen’s House Museum)
  • Patricia Matthew (Montclair State University)

A2: Ecological Spheres

Chair: Christopher Catanese (University of North Carolina)

  • Francesca Gardner (University of Cambridge), The Late Eighteenth-Century Singing Contest and the Locus Amoenus
  • Rajarshi Banerjee (University of Western Ontario), Cultivating Earth: Geological Debates, Unmade Worlds, and the Shelleys
  • Dana Moss (University of Michigan), ‘Such profusion of poetry’: Erasmus Darwin’s Accretive Environments

A3: Identities, Accord, and Conflict

Chair: Francesca Saggini (Università degli Studi della Tuscia)

  • Inês Rosa (University of Lisbon), Collaborative Disagreements: De Quincey and Wordsworth
  • Natasha Duquette (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College), Phillis Wheatley’s Remaking of Dante
  • Xinyuan Qiu (Binghampton University), Making a Fashionable Body: Fancy Heads and the ‘Cult of Breasts’
  • Jack Rooney (The Ohio State University), Snowe Beneath Snowe: Romantic Unmaking in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

A4: Shelleyan Worlds and Works

Chair: Amanda Blake Davis (University of Derby)

  • Pauline Hortolland (Université Paris Cité), ‘Woven tracery’: Shelley’s Botanical Tropes and the Living Medium of Poetry
  • Alexander Lynch (University of Cambridge), Shelley’s Frankenstein and Rousseau’s ‘Workshop of Filthy Creation’
  • Ileana Gonzalez-Zavala (University of Western Ontario), Repetition and Posthumous Re-making in Shelley’s Alastor and Mary Shelley’s Mathilda

2:30pm – Break

3pm – Stephen Copley Memorial Lecture

Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster University) – Impertinent Romanticisms

Chair: Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill University)

‘The daffodils can go fuck themselves.’ So opens Jennifer Chang’s 2012 poem ‘Dorothy Wordsworth’. I have taught this poem alongside writings by Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Tommy Pico, E. Pauline Johnson, and Taylor Swift in my undergraduate course ‘Making and Unmaking Literary Traditions’. In this talk, I distil some of my insights from ongoing discussions with students and colleagues about the moods of various literary and popular interactions with the English Romantic tradition. Focusing in particular on impertinent approaches to this tradition, I consider how such poetic postures unsettle and reinhabit the contours of Romantic worldmaking.

4pm – Break

4:30pm – Parallel Panels B

B1: ‘Teaching Keats, the Shelleys, and their Circles in Troubling Times’: A Two-Part Roundtable (BARS / NASSR 2024 Conferences)

Organiser: Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco)
Co-Chairs: Amanda Blake Davis, University of Derby, and Merrilees Roberts, Queen Mary University of London

  • Diego Alegia Corona (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Valentina Aparicio (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield)
  • Anthony Howe (Birmingham City University)
  • Ou Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick)

B2: Theories and Practices of Making

Chair: Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)

  • Shellie Audsley (University of Cambridge), Computing Genre?: Distant Reading and Ada Lovelace’s Algorithmic Criticism
  • Ines Tebourski (Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities, Tunisia), William Blake’s Milton and the Unmaking/Making of a Canon: A Multimodal Study           
  • Jessica Roberson (Mount Saint Mary’s University), Makerspace Romanticism

B3: Remaking Nations and Traditions

Chair: Chandini Jaswal (Panjab University)

  • Małgorzata Nowak (Adam Mickiewicz University), Remaking Good and Evil: The Case of Juliusz Słowacki
  • Daniela Paolini and Mario Rucavado Rojas (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Remaking Romantic Images: William Blake’s Drawings in José Joaquín de Mora’s Meditaciones poéticas (1826), published by Rudolph Ackermann
  • Suleiman Hodali (UCLA), Romantic Historicism: Nationalism and the Modern Makings of Medievalism

B4: Wordsworthian Resonances

Chair: Yimon Lo (KU Leuven)

  • Yixuan Huo (Durham University), Musicality in Eliot and Wordsworth
  • Deborah Kennedy (Saint Mary’s University), Wordsworth and ‘The Highland Broach’
  • Christopher Catanese (University of North Carolina), Disavowal, Georgic, Nature’s Silent Consent: Wordsworth’s Idle Sympathies
  • Amy L. Gates (Missouri Southern State University), Wordsworth and Rebanks: Making and Remaking the Lake District

6pm – Break

6:30pm – Parallel Panels C

C1: Romantic Cultures of Print

Chair: Francesca Saggini (Università degli Studi della Tuscia)

  • Jerónimo Ledesma (University of Buenos Aires), ‘The author of about 150 magazine articles’: On the Importance of Publishing History as seen in the Case of Thomas De Quincey
  • Genevieve Theodora McNutt (University of Edinburgh), ‘This Collection of Trash is Printed in a Superior Style’: The Making of Joseph Ritson’s Collections
  • Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Sheridan Institute of Technology), Remaking Poetry into Music: Composition, Performance and Print-Trade Productions of Coleridge’s Poetry

C2: Making and Unmaking the Future: Manifestos, Uprisings, Rebellions and Revolutions

Chair: Evy Varsamopoulou (University of Cyprus)

  • Pablo San Martín Varela (University of Chile), The Making and Unmaking of Social Structures in Shelley’s Later Dramas
  • Susan Civale (Canterbury Christ Church University), Revolutionary Heroines in Mary Shelley’s Short Fiction
  • Evy Varsamopoulou (University of Cyprus), Caribbean Calling, 1831: From Mary Prince’s History to the Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica

C3: Remaking Romanticism 3: The Revenge of the Romantic Remake

Chair: Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill University)

  • Carolin Böttcher (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität), Speculative Subjectivity in Pride and Prometheus: Remaking Mary Bennet, Victor Frankenstein and the Creature
  • Heather Ringo (UC Davis), Romanticizing Redwoods as a ‘Great Race’: The Save-the-Redwoods League’s Racist Remaking of the Sublime
  • Eleonora Guidi (University of Bologna), Mary Shelley’s Historical Notes on Dante
  • Karen Weisman (University of Toronto), Rivers, Waterways and the Remaking of Romantic Voice

C4: Romanticism and the Making of Modern ‘Disability’

Chair: Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota)

  • Emily B. Stanback (University of Southern Mississippi), Race and the Horizons of Romantic Disability
  • Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota), Injury, Disability, and Belonging in the Waverley Novels
  • Lindsay Lehman (City University of New York), Locating Disability in ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’

8pm – Ends

Day 2: Friday 2nd August

8am – Parallel Panels D

D1: Making and Unmaking Character

Chair: Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)

  • Francesca Kavanagh (University of Melbourne), Lady Caroline Lamb: Making and Unmaking the Byronic Character
  • Amelia Dale (Australian National University), Producing Character on the Stage and the Title Page: Honest Ranger and ‘Harris’s List’
  • Aditya Banerjee (Harvard University), English Crime Broadsides and the Making of Romantic Character

D2: New Approaches to William Blake

Chair: Jodie Marley (Independent)

  • Ernest Yuen (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Blake’s Soundscape, Buildings, and The Industrial Revolution
  • Shih-hsuan Huang (National Taiwan University), A Body Is a Planet: William Blake’s Geopoetics in Minor Illuminated Books
  • Annalisa Volpone (University of Perugia), ‘From out the Portals of my Brain’: William Blake’s Partus Mentis and the (Un)making of Imagination

D3: Conceptualising Romantic Nature

Chair: Kate Nankervis (University of York)

  • Yuko Otagaki (University of Hyogo), William Wordsworth and Humphry Davy: Reimaging Nature
  • Shouvik N. Hore (Sanskrit College and University), Spatializing ConPerception: The Wordsworth-Clare Debate in ‘Nutting’
  • Jingxuan Yi (Fudan University), Nature Unbound: Eco-Sublime Heterotopias in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man
  • Jingsi Shen (New York University Shanghai), Troubling Time and Genre: Telling Stories of Extinction in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man

9:30am – Break

10am – Parallel Panels E

E1: Shaping Legacies

Chair: Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University)

  • Vinita Singh (University of Leeds), Making a Coleridge: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Autobiographical Letters
  • Amy Wilcockson (University of Glasgow), Thomas Campbell: Editing Romantic Correspondence
  • Marie Michlova (Czech Technical University), Lockhart’s Matthew Wald: 1824-2024

E2: Rewriting Narratives of the East

Chair: Emily Paterson-Morgan (The Byron Society)

  • Md Monirul Islam (Presidency University), Nation and Imagination: Robert Southey, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the Remaking of a Myth
  • Chandini Jaswal (Panjab University), Revisiting the Mughal Zenana—As It Was: Challenging the Narrative of the Harem of the Mughal Empire by Analysing the Visual Culture
  • Souad Baghli Berbar (University of Tlemcen), The Making of Byron’s Orientalism

E3: Romantic-Period Self-Fashioning

Chair: Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill University)

  • Amber Williams (University of Nottingham), ‘For shame, for shame, gentlemen! is this a place for such violence!’: Exploring the Duellist’s Use of Space and Place in Frances Burney’s Cecilia (1792).
  • Vivien Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘The Shadow of Public Thought’: Reception, Taste, and Keats’s Metaphors of Poetic Self-making
  • Rebecca Murray (Charles University, Prague), Remaking Reason: Sincerity, Plain Style and Motivated Language in Godwin’s Political Justice and Other Essays

11:30am – Break

12.30pm – Plenary

Jeff Cowton MBE (Wordsworth Grasmere) – ‘Suddenly people are listening. You matter.’

Chair: Amy Wilcockson (University of Glasgow)

The title of this talk is from a comment made by someone experiencing homelessness. It was made following their contribution to a project aiming to rewrite Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads for a twenty-first century Britain. The project brought 100 such people into the world of curators and creative practitioners and was underpinned by the ideas and writings of a leading academic. Some of the poems resulting from this project were exhibited in the UK Houses of Parliament in 2023. This presentation will therefore explore the very real impact of collaborations such as this one, focused on Dove Cottage, its immediate landscape, and the internationally significant collections of the Wordsworth Trust.

1.30pm – 1.45pm – Closing Comments

Incoming BARS President / Conference Committee