The Romantic and Victorian Studies research group was launched in October 2013, and is directed by Professor Daniel Karlin. The research group is designed to build on and foreground the enormous range of interest and expertise in nineteenth-century history, politics, and culture across the Faculty of Arts, in the Departments of Drama, French, Russian, German, History, Classics, History of Art, and English.
Current research includes projects on the following areas:
In the Department of English, individuals have recently published on many of the major British authors, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt, Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Dickens, Kipling, the Rossettis, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, the pre-Raphaelites, and others. Scholars' research covers the literature of place, ekphrasis, the figure of the singer, the gothic tradition, Dante in nineteenth-century English culture, album verse, writing and handwriting, authorship and reception, Romantic and Victorian afterlives, and other topics.
For further information, please contact Professor Daniel Karlin.