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Wed., 17 Jan.: Marshall Brown, "Romanticism and Enlightenment," in The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran, ed. (1993), pp. 25-47. William Cowper and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ...
From African safaris to low-key engagements, the British royal family has had their fair share of romantic proposal stories—and although some of the marriages didn’t work out, there’s been some pretty ...
Paul Youngquist's research focuses on relations between European and African cultures in the late eighteenth-century West Indies, specifically their mutual contribution to the cultural flowering ...
Specializes in British Romantic literature and culture, literature and empire, poetics, and early children's literature. His current research involves Romantic theories and representations of ...
Critic and scholar Simon Bainbridge explores how, from the French Revolution to his end on St Helena, Napoleon shaped poetry in Britain, particularly the Romantics. Show more British Romanticism ...
British Romanticism, as a literary movement, was brief but burned bright: bookended by two humanist developments in the French Revolution (1789) and the Reform Act of 1832, it has six pillars ...
Tonight's grand final of the Great British Bake Off is expected to draw over four million viewers. Not bad for a genteel BBC2 show about cakes.
The effort and time taken to populate the timeline since the Monarchy joined Facebook in 2010 is impressive. If one’s subjects are on Facebook, then it makes sense to be there too.
Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more ...
TIMELINE:It's a well-known fact: France, which beheaded its own king and queen, has a long-running love affair with the British royal family that has endured ups and downs in the cross-Channel ...