Programme
9.30-10.00: Registration and Coffee
10.00-11.00: Keynote: Tim Fulford, De Montfort University – ‘Beings of Energy: Poets, Geologists and the Science of Mountaineering’ (Chair: Margaret Forsyth, Edge Hill University)
11.00-11.15: Tea Break
11.15-12.30: Panel 1: Romantic Travels (Chair: Liz Edwards, University of Wales)
Paper 1: ‘Leeds, Loch Lomond & the Lakes: The Marshalls, the Wordsworths and Home Tourism’ – Kirsty Anne McHugh, University of Wales
Paper 2: ‘“A New Science”: Travel and Tourism in Southey’s Letters from England’ – Carol Bolton, Loughborough University
Paper 3: ‘The Darkness in the Lighthouse: Travelling the British Coastline in the Romantic Period’ – Zoë Kinsley, Liverpool Hope University
12.30-1.30: Lunch
1.30-2.45: Panel 2: Placing Romanticism in Denmark (Chair: Julia Coole, Keele University)
Paper 1: ‘“The Meteors of War”: Placing Copenhagen in Napoleonic Europe, 1801-1807’ – Cian Duffy, Lund University
Paper 2: ‘The Elfin Hill: An Imaginary Topography in Danish Romanticism’ – Lis Møller, Aarhus University
Paper 3: ‘Danish Travellers Discovering Denmark in the Age of Romantic Nationalism’ – Robert Rix, Copenhagen University
2.45-3.00: Coffee Break
3.00-4.45: Panel 3: Transcultural Exchanges (Chair: Michael Bradshaw, Edge Hill University)
Paper 1: ‘On Pirates and Prostitutes: Charlotte Smith’s Rescue of Manon L’Escaut from Exile on the Margin of the Text’ – Val Derbyshire, University of Sheffield
Paper 2: ‘From the Scottish Borders to the Imperial Periphery: Colonial Discourse and Transcultural Negotiations in the Poetry of John Leyden and Thomas Pringle’ – Gioia Angeletti, University of Parma
Paper 3: ‘Angloindian-Italian Connections of the Romantic Period: The Cases of Lazzaro Papi and Leopoldo Sebastiani’ – Elena Spandri, Università di Siena
Paper 4: ‘“I Was a Stranger in the Land”: Washington Irving’s Sketchbook (1819) and the Refashioning of the “Homeland”’ – Julia Coole, Keele University
4.45-5.00: Petit Fours
5.00-6.15: Panel 4: New Approaches (Chair: Bob Nicholson, Edge Hill University)
Paper 1: ‘Wordsworth Takes to the Hills and the World Wide Web: Exploring a Digital Scholarly Edition of “Tintern Abbey”’ – Brennan Sadler, Kansas State University
Paper 2: ‘“Dejection”: A Node? Affective Responses to Bounded Spaces in Coleridge’s Poetry’ – Sean Nolan, City University of New York
Paper 3: ‘Taking to Mountains: The Romantics on Scafell’ – Joanna Taylor and Christopher Donaldson, Lancaster University
6.15-6.30: Closing Remarks
6.30-9.00: Wine Reception, sponsored by BARS
Romanticism Takes to the Hills 