Registration is now open for a one-day conference on the subject of ‘Romanticism and the South West’, a conference which re-assesses the importance of the South West in Romantic thought and writing.
The conference aims to explore the importance of the South West for Romantic writers, with a particular emphasis on the following topics:
- Ecologically aware writing and protoenvironmental thought;
- The role of the South West in an era of scientific development and discovery;
- The South West as a centre for reform movements and radical politics, as well as a region connected to slavery and imperialism;
- Romantic afterlives in the South West.
For more information please visit http://www.bristol.ac.uk/english/events/conferences/romanticism-sw/
