Romantic Making and Unmaking

In-Person Programme

The in-person elements of ‘Romantic Making and Unmaking’ will primarily take place in the Wolfson Medical School Building, the James McCune Smith Learning Hub and the Boyd Orr Building (accessible via internal links from the James McCune Smith Learning Hub). On the campus map, these are buildings C8, D4 and D1.

Scroll down the page for the outline schedule and the detailed panel listings in .pdf and digital text. The versions below are final – any minor changes necessary due to circumstances on the days will be posted at the registration desk.

The programme for the digital elements of the conference (Thursday 1st August and Friday 2nd August) can be viewed here.

BARS 2024 Glasgow Programme (July – for web – updated 17 Jul)Download

BARS 2024: Romantic Making and Unmaking Glasgow Programme

Outline

Monday 22nd July

2pm-6pm – Registration (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

6pm-8pm – Byron Society Annual Scotland Lecture and Reception: Jane Stabler and Gavin Hopps (Kelvin Gallery, Main Building) – all BARS delegates are welcome to attend

Tuesday 23rd July

From 8am – Registration (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

9:45am-10am – Conference Welcome: Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow, and the Conference Committee (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

10am-11:15am – Plenary: Michelle Levy, Women Writers Making the Printed Book – chaired by Matthew Sangster (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

11:15am-11:45am – Tea (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

11:45am-1:15pm – Parallel Sessions A

1:15pm-2:30pm – Lunch (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

  • 1:45pm-2:15pm – Postgraduate and Early Career Meet-Up (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)
  • 1:45pm-2:15pm – Special Collections William Blake Viewing Session (Level 12, University Library) – sign up at registration desk

2:30pm-4pm – Parallel Sessions B

4pm-4:30pm – Tea (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

4:30pm-6pm – Parallel Sessions C

6pm – Walk or take Subway to City Chambers (at the east end of George Square in the city centre – the nearest Subway station to the City Chambers is Buchanan Street)

6:45pm-7:45pm – City Chambers Drinks Reception and BARS First Book Prize Award

Wednesday 24th July

From 8:30am – Registration (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

9am-10:30am – Parallel Sessions D

10:30am-11am – Tea (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

11am-12:30pm – Parallel Sessions E

12:30pm-1:45pm – Lunch (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

  • 1pm-1:30pm – BARS General Meeting (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

1:45pm-3pm – Plenary Roundtable: Textual Editing (Elizabeth Edwards, Tim Fulford, Craig Lamont and Alison Lumsden) – chaired by Nigel Leask and Megan Coyer (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

3pm-3:30pm – Tea (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

3:30pm-5pm – Parallel Sessions F

5pm – Comfort Break

5:15pm-6:30pm – Plenary: John Gardner, Remains, Reuse and Reinventing – chaired by Simon Kövesi (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

From 6:30pm – Conference Dinner attendees walk to Òran Mór (at the top of Byres Road)

7pm-7:30pm – Pre-dinner drinks for Conference Dinner attendees in the Auditorium at Òran Mór

7:30pm-9:30pm – Conference Dinner at Òran Mór

9:30pm-1am – Òran Mór Auditorium open for all delegates – music, bar and conviviality

Thursday 25th July

From 8:30am – Registration (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

9am-10:30am – Parallel Sessions G

10:30am-11am – Tea (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

11am-12:30pm – Parallel Sessions H

12:30pm-1:45pm – Lunch (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

  • 12:50pm-1:30pm – Curious Travellers Publication Launches, Pipes and Wine Reception (Hunterian Gallery)

1:45pm-3:15pm – Parallel Sessions I

3:15pm-3:45pm – Tea (Wolfson Medical Building Atrium)

3:45pm-5pm – Plenary: Fiona Stafford, ‘To Sing and Build the Lofty Rhyme’: A Keynote on Keystanes (Marilyn Butler Lecture) – chaired by Ronnie Young (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

5pm-5:15pm – Closing Words (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

5:15pm – End of Academic Programme

6pm-7pm – Performance of Robert Burns’ The Jolly Beggars and Drinks Reception (Glasgow University Chapel)

Friday 26th July

9:30am – Coach departs from the University to New Lanark (for delegates who have booked for the trip)

3:30pm – Coach departs from New Lanark to the University (to reach campus before 5pm)

Detailed Panel Information

Tuesday 11:45am–1:15pm

A1 – Extractive Arts: Representations of Mining in the Lakes, the Peaks, and Latin America (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Stephanie O’Rourke (St Andrews)

  • Jessikah Diaz (Yale), Latin American Extraction and the Exhaustion of British Empire: Poetry, Politics, and ‘Peru’
  • Ian Haywood (Roehampton), Wordsworth’s Carbon Footprint
  • Adam Bridgen (Durham), Besides the Lakes: Sublime Aesthetics and Writing Mining in Romantic-Period Derbyshire

A2 – Making Notes: Marginalia, Commonplacing, Compilation (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Kirsteen McCue (Glasgow)

  • Rachael Tarrant (Glasgow/Stirling), ‘What’s all this nonsense for?’: The Nineteenth-Century Glaswegian Student Un(Making) of Walter Scott
  • Roseanna Kettle (York), The Commonplace Book of Edmund Pear, c. 1832-1834
  • Jane Moore (Cardiff), Isabel Throsby’s Sydney Songbook: Moore, Hemans and Balfe Regenerated in Nineteenth-Century Australia

A3 – Scottish Women Writers in and out of the Marketplace (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Honor Rieley (Glasgow)

  • Kate Ferrier (Aberdeen/Edinburgh), ‘sistership in her craft’: Collaboration and Community in the Literary Career of Susan Ferrier
  • Ainsley McIntosh (Aberdeen/Edinburgh), That ‘circle of chosen friends for whom alone they are design’d’: Social Authorship and Scottish Women’s Writing
  • Pam Perkins (Manitoba), Making Travelogues: Jane and Charlotte Waldie in Romantic Print Culture

A4 – Romantic Ecologies (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Nigel Leask (Glasgow)

  • Kate Nankervis (York), Solastalgic Clouds in William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’
  • Anna Pilz (Independent), (Re)Making Romantic Practices
  • Joanna Taylor (Manchester), Dorothy Wordsworth’s Wildness

A5 – Literary Craft 1 (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Simon Kövesi (Glasgow)

  • HannahMcAuliffe (York), ‘I must Create a System’: The Making and Unmaking of William Blake’s Prophetic Books
  • Ross Wilson (Cambridge), Skilful Cultivators: Isaac D’Israeli in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility
  • Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham), J. M. W. Turner’s Dissolving Views of Thomas Campbell in an Era of Mechanical Reproduction

A6 – Romantic Life Writing (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Amy Wilcockson (Glasgow)

  • Amy Culley (Lincoln), Writing the Late Lives of Fathers: Women Writers, Older Age, and Paternal Biography
  • Gerard McKeever (Edinburgh), John Galt and Romantic Autobiography
  • Juliette Wells (Goucher College), Recognizing Oscar Fay Adams as Austen’s First Critical Editor and Biographer

A7 – Faustian Romanticism (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: James Armstrong (CUNY)

  • Martin Potter (York), Impious Science: Speculation and its Discontents in Goethe’s Faust, Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann, and Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • Liz Wan (Oxford), ‘Overwhelmed with mortification and shame’: The Making and Unmaking of the Reluctant Faustian Hero in William Godwin’s St. Leon (1799)
  • Madeline Potter (Edinburgh), The Devil’s Bride: Unholy Unions and the Faustian Logic of The Vampyre and Melmoth the Wanderer

A8 – Byron Society Panel: Byron and Innovation (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Emily Paterson-Morgan (Byron Society)

  • Sara Cole (Lancaster), Byron and Poetic Innovation: The Grand Newton of the Realms of Rhyme?
  • Deven Parker (Glasgow), Byron’s Poetic Cartographies
  • Matthew Ward (Birmingham), Byron and the ‘sea-born city’ of Allusion

Tuesday 2:30pm–4pm

B1 – Making Romantic Periodicals (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Megan Coyer (Glasgow)

  • Keerthi Sudhakar Vasishta (Durham), Notorious Reviews and Antagonistic Poets: Edward Quillinan, Thomas Hamilton and Blackwood’s Magazine
  • Francesca Blanch-Serrat (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Anna Seward’s Literary Feuds: Negotiating Literary Value in the Reviewing Press
  • Honor Rieley (Glasgow), Making Local Literature in the Late Romantic Period: Two Editors in Newcastle and Berwick, 1819–35

B2 – Digital Romanticism 1 (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Cassie Ulph (Leeds)

  • Jennifer Orr (Newcastle), Making and Remaking the Romantic Transatlantic World (1800-1845): Pilot Results from a Social Network Analysis Project
  • Yohei Igarashi (UConn), The Jinnee in the Computer

B3 – Percy Bysshe Shelley in Italy (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Tess Somervell (Oxford)

  • Anna Mercer (Cardiff), The Cenci, Valperga and Making an Audience
  • Amanda Blake Davis (Derby), ‘I arise, and unbuild it again’: Unmaking Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Nora Crook (Anglia Ruskin), The Making of The Cenci: Do we Know All There is to Know?

B4 – Editing Romantic Texts (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Marc Gotthardt (Cambridge)

  • Aidan William Buttigieg (St Andrews), Re-Editing Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III: A Discussion
  • Nick Smith (Exeter), ‘The best and only the best’: Commissioning James Hogg’s Jacobite Relics
  • Shelly Harder (Oxford), Making Blake: The Early Editions

B5 – Making and Unmaking Scottish Literary History (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Katie Halsey (Stirling)

  • Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman (Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh), Making and Unmaking Improvement: Reading Practices Within and Outwith the Early-Nineteenth-Century Scottish Novel.
  • Jacqueline Kennard (Stirling), The Making or Unmaking of Social Barriers in Romantic-Period Orkney
  • Katie Halsey (Stirling), Books, Borrowing and New Versions of Scottish Literary History

B6 – Bodies and Minds 1 (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Alastair Hunt (Portland State)

  • Emily A. Bernhard Jackson (Exeter), The Flesh Made Word: The Literary Importance of the Author’s Body
  • Kang-Po Chen (National Taipei University of Technology), The Alternative Passion: Cannibalism and the Eucharist in Canto II of Byron’s Don Juan
  • Esther Waldron (Oxford), ‘The vale of Soul-making’: The Continual Influence of Keats on Depth Psychology and Psychoanalysis

B7 – Making Conversation (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill)

  • Madeleine Mikinski (York), ‘The daily interchange of news’: Making Information in Austen’s Adult Work
  • Zara Castagna (Birmingham), Making Friendships: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Poetry and S.T. Coleridge’s Conversation Poems
  • Roslyn Irving (JGU Mainz), Gothic and Romantic Methods: Radcliffe and Coleridge in Discussion

B8 – Making Romantic Landscapes (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Will Sherwood (Glasgow)

  • Megan Zeitz (Geneva), Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Romantic Landscape Aesthetics: Theory and Practice
  • Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster), Making and Unmaking the Mountain: Volcano Climbing in Hawaii, 1779-1841
  • Rachael Eleanor Murray (Glasgow), ‘Visionary vales’ and ‘vast concussion’: Writing Terror into the Terrain from Landscape Gardens to ‘Beachy Head’

Tuesday 4:30pm–6pm

C1 – Remediating the Supernatural (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Will Sherwood (Glasgow)

  • Haya Alwehaib (Edinburgh), Crafting and Unravelling: The Arabian Nights’ Role in the Making of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
  • Natalie Tal Harries (Aberdeen/IES), Out-of-the-Way Readers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Scott and Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Orianne Smith (UMBC), Making History: The Waverley Novels and Witchcraft

C2 – Making and Unmaking Poetic Forms 1 (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Mary Fairclough (York)

  • Kriti (Arizona), Periodical Poetry as a Genre
  • Christopher Stokes (Exeter), Occasional Poetry and Everydayness: Re-making Signification and Significance in S.T. Coleridge and Bernard Barton

C3 – Romantic Responses to Ossian (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Annise Rogers (Lincoln)

  • Laurence Maxwell-Stuart (Glasgow), ‘In me thy native Muse regard!’: Scotland and the Making of the Romantic Sublime
  • Sharon Choe (York), Liminal Embodiment and Defying Death: Fashioning Britain in ‘The Incantation of Hervor’ (1763)
  • Scott Krawczyk (UDC/Georgetown), Making Prose Poetry: Anna Barbauld’s Imitation of Ossian

C4 – Lamb beyond Limits: New Contexts for the Romantic Essay (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: John Strachan (Bath Spa)

  • Eloise Scott (Northumbria), Charles Lamb’s Urban Solitude
  • Adam Neikirk (Essex), Unmaking the ‘Indebted Man’: Charles Lamb and the Ethics of Debt
  • Serena Qihui Pei (UCL), Forging the Image of China: Thomas Manning and his Cultural Project

C5 – Romanticism and Young Readers (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman (Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh)

  • Jordan Frederick (UNCC), Gale Cole Novoa’s ‘Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix’ and the Phenomena of (Re)making Austen in the 21st Century for Young, Queer Readers
  • Anna Fancett (OU/Warwick), Making New Audiences: Creating Resources for Schools on Walter Scott’s Poetry
  • Richard de Ritter (Leeds), ‘There is nothing like feeling, to make one remember well’: Chemistry and Embodied Learning in Romantic-Period Writing for Children

C6 – Editing Pierce Egan’s Life in London (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: David Stewart (Northumbria)

  • John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin), Egan and the Future
  • David Stewart (Northumbria), Being ‘up’ to Egan’s Allusions
  • Matthew Sangster (Glasgow), Pierce Egan’s London: A Topographical View
  • Simon Kövesi (Glasgow), ‘the ladies had introduced him to many singular adventures’: The Women of Pierce Egan’s Life in London

C7 – New Directions in Labouring-Class Writing 1: Time, Identity and the Market (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Adam Bridgen (Durham)

  • Xiaoxiao Ma (Leeds), ‘We’ll leave it as we found it’: Roads and Human-Nonhuman Connection in John Clare’s ‘Birds Nesting’ Poems
  • Tim Fulford (De Montfort), Dying Geniuses: The Production of Labouring-Class Poets for the Nineteenth-Century Book Market

C8 – Making History 1: Responses to Current Events (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Emma Clery (Uppsala)

  • Silvia Gregorio-Sainz (Oviedo), A Romanticized ‘Christian Hero’ of the Peninsular War: Three English Poems on the Bishop of Santander (1808)
  • Lisa Vargo (Saskatchewan), ‘Letter of John Bull’ and the Re-making of Anna Barbauld’s Essays for the Monthly Magazine
  • Stephen Bygrave (Southampton), Gifts and Questions

C9 – Deaths and Afterlives (Lecture Theatre E (Room 611), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Francesca Saggini (Tuscia)

  • Amy Wilcockson (Glasgow), The Romantic Legacies of Robert Fergusson
  • Sarah Sharp (Aberdeen), Kirkyard Forefathers: John Wilson, J.G. Lockhart and Assembling Intertextual Romanticism
  • Chia-Jung Lee (National Sun Yat-sen University), The Making and Unmaking of ‘Death’ in Shelley’s Adonais

Wednesday 9am–10:30am

D1 – Paratexts, Footnotes and Context in Romantic Literature (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman (Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh)

  • Neelofer Korotana (Edinburgh), Faith and Footnotes: Islam and Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer
  • Sara Cole (Lancaster), Made from Footnotes: Science, Satire and an Orang Outang in Thomas Love Peacock’s Melincourt

D2 – Remaking Romanticism 1: Romantic Remakes (NASSR Panel) (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill)

  • Katie MacLean (Stirling), Jane Austen, Character: Remaking the Authorial Figure of Austen on Stage
  • Deven Parker (Glasgow), ‘These words are property’: Borrowers and Owners in the Romantic Theatre
  • Rita J. Dashwood (Ghent), Adapting Jane Austen’s ‘Hetero Nonsense’ in Andrew Ahn’s Fire Island

D3 – Romanticism and the Visual Arts (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Amy Wilcockson (Glasgow)

  • Kayleigh Williams (York), ‘Her hair was long, her foot was light, and her eyes were wild’: Elizabeth Siddal as a Re-Maker of Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’
  • Alan Bean (Birmingham), Why only Turner and Constable? Why not Collins?
  • Luisa Calè (Birkbeck), Bibliographic Geometries in William Blake’s Night Thoughts watercolours

D4 – Making Romantic Italy (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Francesca Saggini (Tuscia)

  • Emily Holland (Sheffield), ‘Syllables which breathe of the sweet South’: Byron’s Experimentation with Italian Verse
  • Alessia Testori (Parma), ‘A new race or sect among our countrymen’: The Liberal and the Un/making of an Anglo-Italian identity
  • Eva Lippold (Reading/Open University), How to Write ‘the very best traveller’s guide to Italy’: The Making of Mrs. Starke

D5 – Re-Framing Walter Scott (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Deidre Lynch (Harvard)

  • James Quinnell (Independent), ‘The Romance of his life was ending; its real history just beginning’: The Unmaking of Realism in the Prose of Sir Walter Scott
  • Philip Connell (Cambridge), Walter Scott and the Bourbon Restorations
  • Samuel Baker (UT Austin), Quixoticism and the Making of Romantic Books in Wordsworth and Scott

D6 – Bodies and Minds 2 (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Jeremy Davies (Leeds)

  • Zijian Cui (Leeds), Staging the poetics of ‘Unlust’: Appetites and Nausea in Byron’s Don Juan Canto II
  • Alix Gallagher (Glasgow), Romantic Writing Efforts under Quarantine: Examples from Malta in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Chris Bundock (Essex), Making Love

D7 – Making Political Discourse 1: Duty and Disenchantment (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Stephen Bygrave (Southampton)

  • Laura Quinney (Brandeis), Wordsworth’s Political Disappointment
  • Aino Haataja (Åbo Akademi University), What to Make of Patriotism?: Voicing Eighteenth-Century Opposition Politics in Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage (1814)
  • Jacob Lloyd (Cardiff), ‘Me this uncharter’d freedom tires’: Making and Unmaking Liberty in Wordsworth’s ‘Ode to Duty’

D8 – Romanticism and the Industrial Gaze (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Roseanna Kettle (York)

  • Jake Elliott (Roehampton), The ‘Living’ City: Blake and the Anti-Mechanical Gothic
  • Silvia Riccardi (Umeå), Negotiating Nature: Erasmus Darwin’s Mechanistic Vision and William Blake’s Organic Life
  • Ian Haywood (Roehampton), Re-Carbonizing Wordsworth

D9 – Romantic Publishers and Booksellers (Lecture Theatre E (Room 611), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Marc Gotthardt (Cambridge)

  • David Fallon (Northumbria), In the Eye of the Storm: Booksellers as Culture-Makers
  • Kandice Sharren (Saskatchewan), Beyond the Silver Fork: Henry Colburn’s American Stories
  • Gary Kelly (Alberta), Richard Phillips’s Novelistic Modernity

Wednesday 11am–12:30pm

E1 – Remaking the Romantic Letter (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Amy Wilcockson (Glasgow)

  • Brecht de Groote (Ghent), The Making of a Pseudo-Letter
  • Li-Hui Tsai (St John’s University), The Concept of Romantic Maker: Godwin’s First Edition of Wollstonecraft’s Letters in 1798 and the Making and Breaking of Her Reputation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Jennifer Hargrave (Baylor), Subversive Archiving: Epistolary Documentation of the British Metropole

E2 – Reading Charles and Mary Lamb: Past and Present (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: John Strachan (Bath Spa)

  • Olivia Loksing Moy (CUNY), ‘Roast Pig’ and ‘Old China’ in America: Lamb’s Centennial Essay Editions
  • Felicity James and Crystal Biggin (Leicester), Remaking Shakespeare: The Collaborative Practice of Charles and Mary Lamb
  • Paolo Bugliani (University of Rome Tor Vergata), The Creator as ‘trouble tomb’: Charles Lamb and his Early Modern Companions

E3 – Remaking Romanticism 2: 2 Romantic 2 Remakes (NASSR Panel) (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Rita J. Dashwood (Ghent)

  • Yu-Hung Tien (Edinburgh), Dickinson’s Remake of Keats’s ‘Poetical Character’
  • Toby R. Benis (Saint Louis), Remaking Romanticism in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi
  • Andrew McInnes (Edge Hill), ‘The Chalky Children of Evermore’. Remaking Romanticism with P J Harvey

E4 – Romantic Waste 1 (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Jeremy Davies (Leeds)

  • Nick Dodd (Independent), Finding the Value in Waste: Wordsworth’s ‘Ruined Cottage’ as a Rejection of Locke’s Waste Proviso
  • Tim Milnes (Edinburgh), ‘Nothing beside remains’: Hemans, Shelley, and the Excremental Sublime

E5 – Reviving Romance, Remaking Belief, Raising Ghosts (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Madeline Potter (Edinburgh)

  • Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts), Radcliffe’s Ghost
  • Deidre Lynch (Harvard), Hogg’s True Believers
  • Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), Re-Visitations: James Hogg’s Ghosts and the Time of the Law

E6 – Literary Craft 2 (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Francesca Blanch-Serrat (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Salena Wiener (Simon Fraser), The Sexual Politics of Making a Text: Claire Clairmont’s Fair Copy Labour for Byron
  • Jennifer Comerford (Northwestern), A Hand in the Making: Creative Copying in Late Eighteenth-Century Recipe and Penmanship Books

E7 – Making Reputations (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Kirsteen McCue (Glasgow)

  • Brianna Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Storace and Braham: Love and Reputation Unmade
  • Anne-Claire Michoux (Zurich), Fact-Checking in Actresses’ Memoirs and the Reshaping of Public Reputations: The Case of Mary Wells
  • Emily Paterson-Morgan (Byron Society), Storytelling in the Courtroom: Constructions of Guilty Character in Byron’s Parisina

E8 – Romantic Abolitionism (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Roseanna Kettle (York)

  • Rhys Kaminski-Jones (Wales), Bardic Liberties: Iolo Morganwg and the Making of Bardic Abolitionism
  • Julia S. Carlson (Cincinnati), Making and Unmaking Maps of History: Thomas Clarkson’s Riverine Timeline of Abolition
  • Chris Townsend (St Andrews), The Economics of Antislavery Poetry

E9 – Unmaking the Family (Lecture Theatre E (Room 611), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Katie Halsey (Stirling)

  • Molly Watson (Nottingham), (Maternal) Communities of Storytelling in Mary Shelley’s ‘Proserpine’ (1820)
  • Crystal Veronie (Alabama), Romantic Unmaking: Sara Coleridge’s Writing and Resistive Embodiment

Wednesday 3:30pm–5pm

F1 – Romantic Translation (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Brecht de Groote (Ghent)

  • Dominic Bentley-Hussey (Ghent), Translation and the Making of Literary Modernity: Pseudotranslations in French Romanticism
  • Elena Bonacini (Cambridge), The Making and Unmaking of Shelley’s Italian Translation of ‘Ode to Liberty’
  • Chiara Rolli (Parma), Byron and his Juvenile Translations: Self-Fashioning and the Making of a Reputation

F2 – Romantic Resources and Commodities (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Tim Milnes (Edinburgh)

  • Heidi J. Snow (Principia College), Coniston Copper Mining during the Romantic Era
  • Katie Garner (St Andrews), Protesting Pearl Diving in Romantic Women’s Poetry

F3 – Roundtable: Romantic Writing / Feminist Editing (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Emma Clery (Uppsala)

  • Angela Wright (Sheffield) on the Cambridge University Press Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe
  • Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser) on the Oxford University Press Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Scott Krawczyk (UDC/Georgetown) on Oxford University Press Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • Sharon Ruston (Lancaster) on the Davy Notebooks Project
  • Daniel Cook (Dundee) on Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 (Oxford World’s Classics, 2023)

F4 – Making Time (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)

  • Yuan Ge (KCL), Ruptures in Time: Henri Lefebvre’s Concept of Arrhythmia in Percy Shelley’s Early Works
  • Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge), Opportunity, Ingenuity, and ‘right timing’ in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

F5 – Making History 2: Approaches to Romantic Historiography (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Katie MacLean (Stirling)

  • Jennifer Robertson (Stirling/Strathclyde), Un-Making History: Austen Lays Siege to the Certainties of Historical Form
  • Jeff Strabone (Connecticut College), Mediating History into Poetry: Wordsworth’s The White Doe of Rylstone

F6 – Roundtable: ‘Nature’s Social Union’: Enlightenment, Ecology and Environment in the Work of Robert Burns (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Nigel Leask (Glasgow)

  • Ronnie Young (Glasgow)
  • Pauline Mackay (Glasgow)
  • Fiona Stafford (Oxford)
  • Gerard McKeever (Edinburgh)
  • Nigel Leask (Glasgow)

F7 – Digital Romanticism 2 (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Cassie Ulph (Leeds)

  • Sophie Thomas (Toronto Metropolitan), Re-Mediating the Gallery: Thomas Hope’s ‘Theatre of the Arts’
  • Anthony Mandal (Cardiff), Making the Gothic: Print Culture Networks and Romantic Gothic Fiction
  • Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Behrend), A Complete Frankenstein Variorum: Navigating Five Versions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

F8 – Romantic Travel Writing (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Li-Hui Tsai (St John’s University)

  • Maria Kalinowska (Warsaw), A Notebook from a Romantic Journey to Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land: Rough Draft or Complete Work? Approaching Juliusz Słowacki’s Eastern Diary
  • Rebecca Davies (Inland University), Traversing Reality and Fancy: Mary Wollstonecraft in Norway
  • Przemysław Uściński (Warsaw), A Solitary Wanderer: Tourism, Aesthetics and the Making of Romantic Subjectivity in William Beckford’s Travel Writing

F9 – Romanticism’s Fantastic Legacies (Lecture Theatre E (Room 611), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: James Armstrong (CUNY)

  • Will Sherwood (Glasgow), ‘We’re in the same tale still!’: Mapping British Romanticism’s Legacies in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth
  • Annise Rogers (Lincoln), Re-Making London: How William Blake and Ben Aaronovitch Present a Modern Metropolis
  • Jason Whittaker (Lincoln), Maps of Hell: Visionary Cosmology in Dante, Blake and Gray

Thursday 9am–10:30am

G1 – Making and Remaking the Gothic (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts)

  • Samiha Begum (Sheffield), Reprints, Romance, and Reputation: Tracing Ann Radcliffe’s Life and Writing
  • Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University), Delineating the Gothic Underplot in Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw
  • Laura Eastlake (Edge Hill), The Volcano and the Vampire: The Case for a Volcanic Gothic

G2 – Making Cultural Memory (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Mary Fairclough (York)

  • Mao Chen (Skidmore), Romanticism in May Fourth Writing: Reassessing Chinese Modernity
  • Andrew Lincoln (QMUL), Unmaking Public History, Making People’s History: Scott’s Marmion
  • Leith Davis (Simon Fraser), Remaking Romantic-Era Jacobitism Before Scott: Thomas Campbell’s ‘Lochiel’s Warning’ and Anne Grant’s ‘The Highlanders’

G3 – Romantic Science and Medicine (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Megan Coyer (Glasgow)

  • Sharon Ruston (Lancaster), Humphry Davy’s Protean Poetics
  • Joseph Crawford (Exeter), ‘Burn the Doctors!’: Making and Unmaking Public Health in ‘The Pestilence of Marseilles’ (1829) and the British Cholera Riots of 1832

G4 – Making and Unmaking Gender (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Jordan Frederick (UNCC)

  • Greta Colombani (Cambridge), The (Un)Making of Gender in Anne Bannerman’s Supernatural Poetry
  • Jodie Marley (Independent), ‘All Eternity shudder’d’: Gender Nonconformity and Prophecy in William Blake’s Illuminated Books
  • Carlisle Yingst (Harvard), Robert Kirby’s Life of Mary Anne Talbot and the (Re)making of Gender in Romantic-era Print

G5 – Romantic Transnationalism (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Brecht de Groote (Ghent)

  • Tristram Wolff (Northwestern), Unmaking the Will: Hazlitt on the Continent
  • Diego Saglia (Parma), ‘In some Town of Italy’: Pisa, The Liberal and (Un)Making Liberal Discourse

G6 – Unmaking and Remaking Georgic in the Romantic Period (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Adam Bridgen (Durham)

  • Tess Somervell (Oxford), Georgic for the Anthropocene in Jago’s Edge-Hill
  • James Wood (UEA), Blake and the Georgics of the Plow
  • James Metcalf (Manchester), ‘All ploughd & buried now’: John Clare’s Churchyard Georgic

G7 – Romanticism Beyond the Human (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Will Sherwood (Glasgow)

  • Brianna Nicole Frentzko (York), How Frankenstein’s Creature Unmakes ‘Humanity’: Posthumanism in the Garden
  • Alastair Hunt (Portland State), Fellow Creatures and Political Animals in Kant, Bentham, and Burns
  • Tara Lee (Hong Kong), ‘[A] kind of unfolding or unswathing’: Making and Unmaking Blake’s Exuvial Books

G8 – Roundtable: Romanticism and the Radical Left (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chairs: Valentina Aparicio (QMUL) and Deven Parker (Glasgow)

  • Holly Coleman (North Florida), The Art of Protest: Graffitied Reframings of Blake’s Laocoön and a Robert E. Lee Monument
  • Thora Brylowe (UC Boulder), How to Blow Up the Author
  • John-Erik Hansson (Université Paris-Cité), Reform and Revolution? William Godwin, 21st-century Anarchism, Education and Prefiguration
  • Rory Edgington (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Dangerous Enthusiasts: Religious Transparence and Revolutionary Politics in Romantic Literature
  • Gary Kelly (Alberta), Reading and/as Revolutions

Thursday 11am–12:30pm

H1 – Roundtable: Curious Travellers 2 – Thomas Pennant’s Scottish and Welsh Tours (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Rhys Kaminski-Jones (Wales)

  • Mary-Ann Constantine (CAWCS)
  • Alex Deans (Glasgow)
  • Elizabeth Edwards (CAWCS)
  • Nigel Leask (Glasgow)

H2 – New Directions in Labouring-Class Writing 2: Slavery and Resistance (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Ian Haywood (Roehampton)

  • Roseanna Kettle (York), ‘The short glory of terrestrial things’: Luxury, Antiquity, and Descriptive Verse in Liverpool’s Abolition Debate
  • Franca Dellarosa (Aldo Moro University), The Narrative and the Archive: Researching Between the Lines
  • Adam Bridgen (Durham), Making a Living and Taking a Stance: The Politics of Antislavery for the Scottish Naval Physician

H3 – Editing Mary Wollstonecraft (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser)

  • Laura Kirkley (Newcastle), Editing Of The Importance of Religious Opinions: The Critical Connection Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Jacques Necker
  • Mary Fairclough (York), Wollstonecraft, ‘text work’, and The Female Reader
  • Emma Clery (Uppsala), Editing Wollstonecraft’s Letters: Unmaking the Godwinian Narrative
  • Lisa Vargo (Saskatchewan), Contributions to the Analytical Review, 1788-1797

H4 – Making Romantic Celebrity (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Kirsteen McCue (Glasgow)

  • Omar F. Miranda (San Francisco), The Making of Global Celebrity
  • Maria Gemma Silva Ferrandez (Stirling), The Making of Lord Byron: Discrepancies in Pictorial Representations
  • Dan Wall (Aberdeen), The Battle of the Biographers: Moore, Galt and the Making and Re-Making of the Life of Byron

H5 – Making Political Discourse 2: Reform and Revolution (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Sophie Thomas (Toronto Metropolitan)

  • Haowei He (Edinburgh), The Rational, the Natural, and the Uncertain: The Making and Unmaking of Keats’s Adornian Aesthetic Space
  • Patrick Chester (QMUL), Rhizomes, Constellations and Anastrophe: Remaking Catastrophe in Friedrich Holderlin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Joseph Mallord William Turner
  • Michael Tomko (Villanova), Re-Making the Masque: The Politics of Enchantment in Leigh Hunt’s ‘Descent of Liberty’

H6 – Fiction and Representation (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Katie MacLean (Stirling)

  • Fiona Price (Chichester), Making and Unmaking Romantic Realities: Robert Bage and Jane Austen
  • Nicky Lloyd (Bath Spa), A ‘most gross imposture’: Visual Perception and Narrative Deception in the Fiction of Charlotte Dacre
  • Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman (Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh), ‘’Twas strange – ’twas passing strange!’: Quotation as Code in the Novels of Susan Ferrier

H7 – Staging Romanticism (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Eva Lippold (Reading/Open University)

  • Bethan Elliott (York), ‘Quietly setting me aside’: Joanna Baillie and the Problems of Publication
  • James Armstrong (CUNY), Staging Race in The Death of Christophe King of Hayti
  • Sarah Burdett (Cambridge), Making and Unmaking ‘Scott’-ishness: Sir Walter Scott’s Dramas on the Dublin Stage

H8 – Making and Unmaking Poetic Forms 2 (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Deven Parker (Glasgow)

  • Marc Gotthardt (Cambridge), Pirate Poetics: Byron and the Authoritative Edition
  • David Sigler (Calgary), Making the Rules in Keats’s ‘There Was a Naughty Boy’ and Hemans’s ‘Casabianca’
  • Mark Sandy (Durham), ‘A Prismatic and Many-sided Mirror’: The Poetics of Making and Unmaking in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound

H9 – Romantic Waste 2 (Lecture Theatre E (Room 611), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Madeline Potter (Edinburgh)

  • Alexander Freer (Edinburgh), Looking at the Stars Alone
  • Merrilees Roberts (QMUL), Lamia and the Involuntary Body
  • Tim Milnes (Edinburgh), ‘Wallowing in the rubbish of departed ignorance’: Romantic Waste and Epistemological Refinement

Thursday 1:45pm–3:15pm

I1 – Horti-culture: The Flowers and Gardens of Romanticism (Gannochy Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building)

Chair: Francesca Saggini (Tuscia)

  • Teresa Rączka-Jeziorska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Out of a Love of Nature or Homeland?: Flowers, Stones and Gardens of Izabela Czartoryska, née Flemming (1746-1835) and Michał Jan Borch (1753-1810)
  • Thomas Robertson (Oxford), Charlotte Smith, Floral Form, and the ‘Orchis race’
  • Francesca Orestano (Milan), Dorothy’s Plants and Flowers

I2 – Frankenstein Remade (Room 430, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Sharon Ruston (Lancaster)

  • Henry Mason (QMUL), ‘A huge automaton in human form’: Andrew Ure, Frankenstein and the Industrial Romantic
  • Fiona Doxas (Oxford), Frankenstein: A Scientific Revolution of Faust
  • Daniel Cook (Dundee), Unmaking Frankenstein: The Monster’s Wife and Other Bride Fictions

I3 – Romantic-Period Exchanges between Britain and Latin America (Room 438AB, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Honor Rieley (Glasgow)

  • Félix Flores Varona (Ciego de Ávila), Lord Byron and the Making of Cuban Romanticism: José Martí’s ‘Alfredo’
  • Valentina Aparicio (QMUL), Writing Creole Identities in Southey’s History of Brazil: The Cases of Filipe Camarão and Caramuru
  • Arun Sood (Exeter), Scott, Scotland, and Cuba: Transnational Literary Entanglements and a Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel

I4 – Making Irish Romanticism (Room 630, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts)

  • Claire Connolly (UCC), Frieze Coats and the Fabric of Irish Romanticism
  • Lucy Cogan (UCD), The Role of Alcohol in the Making and Unmaking of Irish Masculinity in Popular Folktales of the Romantic Era

I5 – Jane Austen and the Arts (Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Hannah Moss (National Trust)

  • Lauren Nixon (Nottingham Trent), Post Modern Moments: Austenmania and the Development of Genre
  • Hannah Moss (National Trust), Reforming the Artist Heroine: Reading Sense and Sensibility (1811) as a response to West’s A Gossip’s Story (1796)
  • Rita J. Dashwood (Ghent), Creators of Spaces: The Art of Owning, Managing, Inhabiting and Imagining Property in Jane Austen

I6 – Roundtable: Making the John Galt Edition (Room 641, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Robert Irvine (Edinburgh)

  • Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt)
  • Adam Kozaczka (Texas A&M International)
  • Angela Esterhammer (Toronto)
  • Robert Irvine (Edinburgh)
  • Craig Lamont (Glasgow)
  • Clare A. Simmons (Ohio State)
  • Leith Davis (Simon Fraser)
  • Gerard McKeever (Edinburgh)

I7 – World-Making (Room 734, James McCune Smith Learning Hub)

Chair: Tim Milnes (Edinburgh)

  • Caroline Anjali Ritchie (Oxford), ‘Where is earth?’: Reading Global Vision and the View from Nowhere in Edward Young’s Night Thoughts and William Blake’s Designs
  • Jeremy Davies (Leeds), World-Making in Thomas Lovell Beddoes

I8 – Collective Creations (Lecture Theatre D (Room 513), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Matthew Sangster (Glasgow)

  • David Lo (National Sun Yat-sen University), Wordsworth’s Making of the Lyric We in The Prelude
  • Prue Shaw (UCL) and Luis Castellví (Manchester), The Byron-Shelley Friendship in Julian and Maddalo
  • William D. Melaney (American University in Cairo), Vico and Romanticism: Literature, Poetics, History

I9 – Unfinished Work (Lecture Theatre E (Room 611), Boyd Orr Building)

Chair: Deidre Lynch (Harvard)

  • Thomas H. Ford (La Trobe), Raymond Williams’s Unwritten Romantic Histories
  • Paul Keen (Carleton), ‘To return from this digression’: Exorbitant Hazlitt