As I say in my intro, I aimed to have Judith as keynote from when I saw her paper at Sheffield’s Creativity and Tumult 1816 conference and her keynote was a fantastic, interactive finale linking pedagogy with posthumousness #Rom2Uni
I feel like I learned from Matt’s approach to peer review which was to assertively stick to his guns where necessary - working with him made me feel more confident in engaging with peer review #Rom2Uni
I still sort of disagree with Colette’s argument about Wollstonecraft as reviewer but *believe* in the power of dissensus to keep academia moving #Rom2Uni
I really enjoyed working with John-Erik on bouncing Godwin against Ngai’s aesthetic theory #Rom2Uni
EHUNineteen
One of our @ehunineteen.bsky.social MA graduates - now a first year PhD researcher - has had his first article published in Brontë Studies
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It’s about how Jane is a bit like Pilot, Mr Rochester’s dog 🐶🙀
In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), Rochester’s dog, Pilot, introduces Jane and Rochester, essentially setting into motion the main plot of the novel. To use Ivan Kreilkamp’s term, Pilot eventu...
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Dr Andrew McInnes
✨CFP✨ Join us in Sheffield for our international Radcliffe conference (24th-26th June, 2027). As well as papers & keynotes from world-leading experts, expect a range of exciting events - announcements to come soon 👀 Click 👇 for more info & submit your proposal!!
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This was my first (and so far only) foray into some form of cultural-theory informed Godwin criticism. I can't thank @drbeard79.bsky.social enough for the invitation to contribute and guidance ! (and for the general awesomeness and generosity).
www.romtext.org.uk/articles/rt2...
One week today: publication day for uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...! My brilliant co-authors Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social @adamcrymble.bsky.social & I are excited for the book to be out. It will also be available open access, as our dataset is: zenodo.org/records/8070... #HistFood
IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast!
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#skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️
🎉Congratulations to @c19thnewshound.bsky.social, our 2026 Mitchell Prize winner! His work reframes the so-called "failure" of #19thC short-lived periodicals as innovative and intentional. Our judges described the project as "analytically acute and conceptually ambitious." Read more: buff.ly/mix9hRU
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
Writing under the pseudonym of Edward Baldwin in the preface to the Fables, Ancient and Modern (1805) the first book for children he wrote for his own bookselling business, William Godwin argued th…
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
@judithmpascoe.bsky.social rounds off the special issue with a consideration of Godwin’s immersion in Wollstonecraft’s work after her death, musing on his work of mourning as a teaching and learning experience - and how mourning informs teaching today
@mjrsangster.bsky.social traces a variety of poetic responses to the Romantic era university
@johnerik-h.bsky.social thinks about what Godwin finds interesting in and for children’s literature in relation to Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic category of the interesting
Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now
Colette Davies reviews Wollstonecraft’s reviewing practices, positioning her as a surprisingly conservative gatekeeper
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Writing under the pseudonym of Edward Baldwin in the preface to the Fables, Ancient and Modern (1805) the first book for children he wrote for his own bookselling business, William Godwin argued th…
www.romtext.org.uk
Immediately after Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, William Godwin immersed himself in reading her work and came up with his editorial plan for the Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the…
In Jerusalem, William Blake makes it clear that he sees universities as complicit in processes of mechanisation that threaten to destroy creativity and enslave minds: ‘I turn my eyes to the Schools…
In the late eighteenth century, the literary marketplace expanded significantly and review culture burgeoned. Mary Wollstonecraft, often perceived as an avant-garde feminist, embarked on a ‘new pla…
