The Blackwood's Bicentenary Conference, University of Edinburgh, 25-26 July 2017.
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
Woodpeckings Conference at the British Museum
I’m off to the Woodpeckings Conference at the British Museum in London later this week to give a paper. I’ll be talking about Victorian attitudes to illustrated books. When Victorian readers encountered Romantic-period writings, they were not usually reading Romantic-period books. Instead, they mostly encountered Romantic writing in new editions, which supplied existing works with …
Proofs for What the Victorians Made of Romanticism have arrived
I’ve started correcting the proofs for my new book What the Victorians Made of Romanticism. The book will be published by Princeton University Press in the autumn. Correcting proofs is a painstaking business, but so far there are very few errors. Publishers hate authors who change their mind about things once the book has been typeset, because …
Book Launch: The Broadview Introduction to Book History
Tomorrow I’ll be launching the new book that I’ve written with Michelle Levy – The Broadview Introduction to Book History – at an event at Blackwell’s Bookshop on Edinburgh’s South Bridge. There’ll be wine and, of course, a chance to buy the book. The launch starts at 6.30pm – more details here.
Talk in Uppsala, Sweden
Next week I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. The talk is called ‘What the Victorians Made of Romanticism’ and will outline some of the main arguments that underpin my new book. I’m looking forward to sharing these arguments and getting to discuss them with people before the book appears. …
Lost Romantics found in Vechta
Next week I’m going to the University of Vechta in Germany to give one of the keynote lectures at the ‘Lost Romantics’ conference organised by Norbert Lennartz. Also on the programme are Frederick Burwick, Richard Sha, Richard Marggraf Turley, Michael O’Neill, Lilla Crisafulli and Fiona Stafford. I’ll be talking about the remarkable John ‘Walking’ Stewart. …
The Broadview Introduction to Book History
"No other text summarizes the multiple disciplinary contributions to this field across such a wide scope." Johanna Drucker
The Poetry of William Wordsworth
In this series of short talks recorded for Massolit, I explore some of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems. MASSOLIT | The Poetry of William Wordsworth