Conference Panels

This section collects reviews of conference panels in the field of Romanticism. 

Romantic Elements
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Chicago, Illinois
August 8-11, 2019

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Chicago 2019
Panel: “Beyond the Pale: New Directions in Transnational Romanticisms”​

  • Moderators: Deanna Koretsky (Spelman College) and Joel Pace (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire)
  • Atesede Makonnen (Johns Hopkins University), “‘The actual sight of the thing’: Horror, Blackness, and Romantic Visualizations of Race”
  • Cesar Soto (University of Notre Dame), “‘Reflections on Exile’: Criollo Romanticisms”
  • Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco), “Romantic Celebrity and the Journal of Exile: El Colombiano and The Liberal
  • Bakary Diaby (Skidmore College), “Feeling Black, Feeling Back: Racism, Fragility, and Romanticism”
  • Manu Samriti Chander (Rutgers University--Newark), Respondent

Reviewed by Alexandra Milsom (Hostos Community College, CUNY), Brian Rejack (Illinois State University), Shavera Seneviratne ( ...

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Romantic Elements

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Chicago, Illinois

August 8-11, 2019

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Chicago 2019
Panel: “Melancholic Environment”

  • Chair: Kathryn Ready (The University of Winnipeg)
  • Benjamin Blackman (UC Davis), "Melancholy Matters: Wollstonecraft's Empty Commerce"
  • Shelby Carr (Lehigh University), "'I, the offspring of love, and the child of the woods': Natural Oblivion in Mary Shelley's Matilda"
  • Taylin Nelson, "'Ever open grave': Romantic Melancholy and Devouring Landscapes"

Reviewed by Elizabeth Giardina (University of California, Davis)

This panel largely cohered around how the affective state of melancholy affords individual freedoms and the ability to imagine oblivion as well as obfuscated systems of capital. The three speakers all engaged with melancholy as a mood with specific, circumstantial utilities, whether as a heuristic for thinking about the heavy dangers of industrialization or as an...

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Romantic Elements

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Chicago, Illinois

August 8-11, 2019

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Chicago 2019
Panel:
 "Medical Poetics"

  • Chair: John Savarese (University of Waterloo)
  • Jessica Roberson (Mount Saint Mary’s University), “‘In short, I’m sick of sickness’: Thomas Hood, Chronic Illness, and Form”
  • Erin Lafford (University of Derby), “‘Fancys or feelings’: John Clare’s Hypochondriac Poetics”
  • Thomas J. Brennan (Saint Joseph’s University), “Dramatized Empathy: Aids and Romanticism in Paul Monette’s Last Watch of the Night

Reviewed by Sharon Choe (University of York)

Illness in literature can be approached by writers and readers alike with a certain cautiousness. Accounts of illnesses are considered as stories of a deeply personal journey for the writer, filled with pain and remorse that the readers then have the privilege of viewing. Of course this is a generalisation, but this sort of...

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Romantic Elements

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Chicago, Illinois

August 8-11, 2019

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Chicago 2019
Panel: “Elemental Technologies"

  • Chair: Nicholas Halmi (Oxford University)
  • Andrew Barbour (University of California, Berkeley), “Blake’s Industrial Revolutions”
  • Jennifer Yida Pan (University of Chicago), “Elemental Technology in Romanticism, or forms of hinging”
  • John Mulligan (Rice University), “Romantic Data: Knowledge Discovery in the Herschel Archive”

Reviewed by Ben Blackman (University of California, Davis)

By now, the notion that Romanticism and technology are antithetical, or even unrelated and contained within separate spheres of the total human experience, has been, and continues to be, thoroughly debunked, as illustrated by this fruitful panel at NASSR’s 2019 meeting in Chicago. Recent books by Mark Coeckelbergh and John Tresch, unambiguously titled New Romantic Cyborgs...

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Romanticism Now and Then

International Conference on Romanticism

July 31-August 2, 2019

Manchester

International Conference on Romanticism
Manchester 2019
Keynote Lecture: ‘“Middle Summer’s Spring”: Seasonable Months, Warming Skies’

Anne-Lise François (University of California, Berkeley)

Reviewed by Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge)

I grew up in Manchester, the venue for this year’s International Conference on Romanticism. Manchester is famous for its weather – not like California or the South of France are famous for their weather: no, Mancunian weather is grey and wet. And there is a distinctive quality to Mancunian wetness. I remember childhood days on which, even when it wasn’t raining, it was still, somehow, moist, Atlantic rain clouds trapped up against the buffer of the Pennines to the east dispersing a kind of inverse miasma from above. When it did rain, it wasn’t often dramatic, thunderous rain, but instead seemingly (only seemingly) gentle, insidiously penetrating drizzle – mizzling, my dad (a native...

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Romanticism Now and Then

International Conference on Romanticism

July 31-August 2, 2019

Manchester

International Conference on Romanticism
Manchester 2019
Panel: "Nineteenth-Century Receptions"

  • Chair: Ingrid Hanson (The University of Manchester)
  • Rachel Lewis (University of California, Berkeley), “Seeing Shelley Plain: Mediating the Romantic Past in Browning and James”
  • Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham), “Arnold’s Struggle with Byron”
  • Federica Coluzzi (The University of Manchester), “Beyond Creative Appropriation: The Romantic Critical Discourse on Dante from Coleridge to G. Rossetti”
  • Alessia Benedetti (The University of Manchester), “Between Romanticism and Anti-Romanticism: A Journey Across Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Reception of Dante in Russia”

Reviewed by Lucia Scigliano (Durham University)

The panel “Nineteenth-Century Receptions” provided a wide-ranging and far-reaching understanding of cultural and literary receptions in the nineteenth...

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Romanticism Now and Then

International Conference on Romanticism

July 31-August 2, 2019

Manchester

International Conference on Romanticism
Manchester 2019
Panel: "William Blake"

  • Chair: Colin Trodd (University of Manchester)
  • Jennifer Davis Michael (University of the South), “Silence and Secrecy in Blake’s Europe
  • Sharon Choe (University of York), “Dismembered and Disenchanted: The Seven Corporeal Ages in The Book of Urizen
  • Martina Zamparo (University of Udine), “’The Male is a Furnace of beryl; the Female is a Golden Loom’: The Energetic Rivalry Between Man and Woman in Blake’s Artistic System”
  • Sheila Spector (Independent Scholar), “Blake’s Aesthetic Treatment of Ugolino’s Political Imprisonment”

Reviewed by Hannah McAuliffe (Durham University)

As he is a lecturer in Art History at the University of Manchester, it was fitting that Colin Trodd should open the session on William Blake by drawing...

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Lee Nevitt
Tufts University

On Thursday, April 20, 2017, the Red Bull Theater of New York City produced a dramatic reading of Lord Byron’s Manfred. This performance preceded a day-long international symposium on the play at New York University. The two-day event brought local theater-goers together with Byron scholars from around the world in celebration of the bicentenary of the play’s publication in 1817. As the organizer of both events, Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco), remarked: “In order to commemorate Manfred’s 200th anniversary, I was fortunate enough to bring together some of the very best theater experts and literary critics. We collaborated with one of the greatest classical theater companies of New York City for the play’s production. I also invited several distinguished Byron scholars from across the globe (including Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Australia) to offer new critical perspectives at our #Romantics200 symposium. Broadview Press...

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Christopher Stampone's uses Twine in discussion of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

International Conference on Romanticism
Colorado Springs 2016
Panel: "Jane Austen in the Dark"

  • Moderator: Talia Vestri Croan (Boston University)
  • Catherine Engh (Graduate Center, CUNY), “Environmental Aesthetics and Infection in Sense and Sensibility
  • Daniela Garofalo (University of Oklahoma), “Abandoned by Providence: Loss in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
  • Christopher Stampone (Southern Methodist University), “‘Obliged to Yield’: The Language of Patriarchy and the System of Slavery in Mansfield Park

Review by Talia Vestri Croan (Boston University)

Friday’s #ICR2016[SB1]  kicked off with “Jane Austen in the Dark,” a wonderful early-morning panel acting as serendipitous prelude to the evening’s keynote address by Devoney Looser, which, as we would come to find out, took us to...

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International Conference on Romanticism
Colorado Springs 2016
Panel: "These Dark Satanic Mills"

  • Moderator: Mark Lussier (Arizona State University)
  • Thora Brylowe (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Ode on a Not-So-Grecian Urn: Blake’s Portland Vase and the Work of Engraving”
  • Jennifer Davis Michael (Sewanee, University of the South), “Voices of the Ground: Silence and Articulation in Gray, Wordsworth, and Blake”
  • Jacob Henry Leveton (Northwestern University), “Going Dark: Blake’s Abstract Color Fields and the Pitt Surveillance State”

“’The True Method of Knowledge Is Experiment’: Dark Blake Panel Plums the Depths of Blake’s Works”
by Christopher Stampone (Southern Methodist University)

Many interesting and—as the “These Dark Satanic Mills” panel showed—potentially subversive intricacies in William Blake’s work are so dense that they might elude even the most careful scholar....

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