MLA Commons | LLC English Romantic | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/ Activity feed for the group, LLC English Romantic. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 38842ee7f8a17c84de4adc97253101bc Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic Nominations and Self-nominations for Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-for-executive-committee/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:01:06 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The English Romantic LLC Forum Executive Committee seeks nominations and self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2027. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate d…[Read more]

]]> 0 aef748796a789733b7c5b1b1b2927cba Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Self-nominations to Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-to-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:57:46 -0500 The British Romanticism Forum Executive Committee seeks self-nominations to join the committee for a five-year term, beginning in 2026. The committee typically meets during the convention to discuss and organize roundtables and panels for the following year’s convention, as well to nominate delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly every three y…[Read more]

]]> 0 41589079f77abc23207c6a5341a15e3c Kevis Goodman started the topic Call for Abstracts: "Desire without Objects," MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-desire-without-objects-mla-2025/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:38:11 -0500 The MLA Forum on English Romantic Studies invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed forum session:

Desire without Objects: 

Romantic desire’s ambivalence toward objects: formlessness, the infinite, irony, disability, fragments, affects, music, rhythm, attunement, nostalgia, queerness, movement, conflict, aggregation, di…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7d5818e4382fcbcfd270969c42f44e Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868242/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:07:19 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb8cdfccc9e9c8e07c198107f8e124a0 Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866468/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:05:48 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 315a84d7f381eb041991f40f47f08402 Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771066/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:35:15 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 54538235dc74e75bc815ac930187c145 Carla Sassi posted an update in the group LLC English Romantic: The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1754861/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:12:35 -0400 The Jack Medal is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The award is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from…[Read more]

]]> 0 4325903f45acdbdb1ec9b0126650375e Magdalena Ostas deposited Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745161/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:00:43 -0400 The connection between philosophy and real or everyday language belongs to Wordsworth’s early poetic vision. My interest in Wordsworth’s dialogue with philosophical thinking leads me to turn neither to studies tracing the varied philosophic influences on his poetics nor to those examining the influence of his collaborator Coleridge on his ear…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f8216296d7ff0b92176fee5b4bb4682 Magdalena Ostas deposited Keats's Voice in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1745121/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:29:44 -0400 Keats’s poetic thoughts on the topic of human identity remain some of Romanticism’s most incisive reflections on the constitution of selfhood. This essay is about the ways Keats’s verse thinks through questions about human subjectivity and its horizons with an imaginative range. Keats famously asserts that the poetical character has “no i…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0d7eda6eaa129cca0a2d70edbbe434e Samuel Baker deposited The Gothic, Supernatural and Religious: Scott, Hogg, and Blackwood’s in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1743679/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:28:15 -0400 A distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bd5eb61ae5eaec38239ac1538fd9e01 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742218/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:48:15 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0923e610e49c7ee375fd3de847891664 Samuel Baker deposited Scott's Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733235/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:29:17 -0400 It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c7a3b2482f65770db9fba807c0384d0 James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732043/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:24:18 -0400 This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]

]]> 0 54cb8276af92c8c9b1b189a09b7b6647 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/english-romantic/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2021-forum-delegate-election-15/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:26:48 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 4575192f4ab73b80db1fe546295b60ea John Savarese deposited Psyche’s “Whisp’ring Fan” and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1696186/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:25:22 -0400 While scholars have long considered John Keats’s Ode to Psyche a document of secularization, the poem’s precise relationship to the secular needs further attention. This essay engages with recent critiques of secularism, by Gil Anidjar and others, which challenge readings of Keats that make secularism or “toleration” a hallmark of his radical…[Read more]

]]> 0 3cadda96fe397d66c30c2cf9361adafa Flavio Gregori uploaded the file: CFP 'Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'. to LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636750/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:31:16 -0400 The journal ‘English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts’, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of ‘Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’. We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]

]]> 0 72e9e03e0730f971bbd11cab5eeb6608 Susan Oliver uploaded the file: CFP: MLA 2019 Transatlantic Romanticisms Reviewed to LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601112/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:36:45 -0500 THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, CHICAGO, JANUARY 3-6, 2019
SESSION SPONSORED BY THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM (NASSR)
Proposals are invited for the following guaranteed session sponsored by NASSR at the 2019 MLA. NASSR is an MLA-affiliated organisation.
TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISMS REVIEWED
The session explores…[Read more]

]]> 0 77cd1a2ec0633fee7a926a7acb910996 Susan Oliver uploaded the file: Call for Papers: MLA Convention 2019 NASSR Session Transatlantic Romanticisms Reviewed to LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601111/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:35:16 -0500 THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, CHICAGO, JANUARY 3-6, 2019
SESSION SPONSORED BY THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM (NASSR)
Proposals are invited for the following guaranteed session sponsored by NASSR at the 2019 MLA. NASSR is an MLA-affiliated organisation.
TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISMS REVIEWED
The session explores…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3954d423aaea614f9f2dec7233e8989 Susan Oliver deposited Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey's Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598858/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:09:27 -0500 This article explores editorial practice in the British and North American periodicals between c.1800 and c.1850. The article uses a Transatlantic studies approach.

]]> 0 cc7c5ff3343b651f85f6fe4aae4ba983 Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598852/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 03:56:47 -0500 This sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.

ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more]

]]> 0 823cfff26e9b0dedfea147db574eb5ad Susan Oliver deposited "Introduction," Walter Scott: New Interpretations in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596529/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 05:40:13 -0500 Preview of “Introduction” to The Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017), Walter Scott: New Interpretations.

Just over half a century ago, Marxist critic Georg Lukács proposed that Walter Scott — writing more than a century earlier — was responsible for a new kind of historical narrative: readers, by identifying with everyday kinds of fict…[Read more]

]]> 0 91393744f7d897960bfbaa6dc55ac72f Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 521: Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594333/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 05:36:29 -0500 Darko Suvin claims that science fiction is fundamentally concerned with “cognitive estrangement,” or the presence of some element in the story that transforms how its readers understand their world. In fact, much of the developments in science, economics, and politics in the nineteenth century were also concerned with the new worlds revealed by…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe9e4b5d38f478250c27cd69917d6b78 Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565907/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:16:17 -0400 PDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.

]]> 0 102d7304d1af968b0079de088ef7659e Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 372: Nineteenth-Century Literature of the Americas and the British Empire in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557548/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:25:53 -0500 372 [HUM] 19th Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas. 3 credit hours. Literary and cultural texts in English from 1800 to 1900 focusing on global British literature and literatures of the Americas.

My investment in the course.
I am concerned about our country’s inability to work against climate change, the mass i…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e89192a6ac4f48a19a44fc196b7f0d4 Linda V Troost deposited The Undead Eighteenth Century in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538395/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:10:52 -0500 If Jane Austen had wanted to write about zombies, what might she have known about the walking dead in the early nineteenth century? In this 2010 presidential address for EC/ASECS, subsequently published in the society’s newsletter, I examine this question and take a look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

]]> 0 7dc03f37ac99296ee536ab4f18c4b6fb Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534925/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:21:49 -0500 In an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b04137470e8861412337ea02c40c5fb Roger Whitson deposited Applied Blake: Milton's Response to Empire in the group LLC English Romantic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534831/ Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:41:38 -0500 Studying William Blake means studying the event of history, the way history merges with and emerges within theology, politics and philosophy. William Blake’s poetry has had a precarious relationship with history; his work resonates from very specific historical concerns and yet also seems to struggle against being confined to any formal h…[Read more]

]]> 0 58b7caab4450a5ef37a95aeb2b066e0e Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group LLC English Romantic: Dear Colleagues, Joyce Meier of Michigan State University […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/270559/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:42:34 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.

As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e053de83e6473b27e25879c035f2842 Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena - call for chapter submissions in the forum The English Romantic Period http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-english-romantic-period/forum/topic/jane-austen-fan-phenomena-call-for-chapter-submissions-2/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:56:14 -0500 Call for Submissions

FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN

Intellect Books

 

Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm

 

A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.

 

This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab6f491d811187b06968b8eb8b5de16f Maureen Noelle McLane posted an update in the group LLC English Romantic: TO: Romanticists and Friends of: There will be FOUR panels […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/53067/ Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:40:22 -0500 TO: Romanticists and Friends of:

There will be FOUR panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the Division on the English Romantic Period at the upcoming MLA: MARK YOUR CALENDARS and support Romanticism!

Please do attend: in the middle of various MLA consolidation pushes (see the Restoration and late-18th C. Divisional duress), it is important…[Read more]

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