Shelley Conference, Institute for Advanced Study, University of London, September 2017
‘Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning’ accepted for RES
My article ‘Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning’ has been accepted for publication in the Review of English Studies. The beginnings of Byron’s longer poems reveal a number of anxieties about the poetic act of beginning. He dealt with these concerns in several ways: revising opening lines, using translations from other poets to begin his …
World Book Day Lecture
I’m very happy to have been invited to give the World Book Day Lecture at the University of Otago in New Zealand next March. World Book Day next year is on 1 March. I’m not quite sure what I’m going to talk about yet, but I’m planning to say something about the things we do …
Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning Lecture in Melbourne
Collaborative Authorship
Passing Time in Victorian Illustrations to Romantic Poetry
Blackwood’s Bicentenary Conference
Nick Mason and I organised a two-day conference to mark the bicentenary of the founding of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. It was attended by around 40 scholars from the UK, North America, Europe and Asia. There were great plenary lectures by Joanne Shattock and Mark Parker. We hope that the conference will help to focus research …
BARS Conference, University of York
I’m off to the British Association of Romantic Studies conference at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York. This is the leading academic conference in the UK for studies of Romantic literature and the Romantic period. The topic this year is ‘Romantic Improvement’. I’ll be talking about the ways in which Victorian preachers and …
Libel Law and Reviewing in Early Blackwood’s
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism
"A major contribution to our understanding of Romanticism, not only what it was but also what it became." Clifford Siskin