10.05.2017
08:30 Pre-Conference Trip to Hamburg
Visit and guided tour of the Art Gallery (Kunsthalle) and the Concert Hall Plaza (Elbphilharmonie)
11.05.2017
14:00 Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt, Principal of the University of Vechta
14:10 Introduction
Norbert Lennartz (Vechta), About Lost, Marginalised Writers and Romantic ‘One-Hit Wonders’
14:30 Keynote Lecture I
Fred Burwick (UCLA), Six Characters in Search of Lost Playwrights
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Forgotten and Marginal Romantics I
(Chair: Keir Elam)
- Philip Hunnekuhl (Hamburg), Henry Crabb Robinson on Other Lost Romantics
- Amelia Worsley (Amherst/Mass.), The Figure of the Hermit in the Poetry of Mary Robinson and Charlotte Smith
17:00 Keynote Lecture II
Richard Marggraf Turley (Aberystwyth), Barry Cornwall: Lost Nightingale
18:00 Reception at Town Hall and Welcome Address by the Mayor of Vechta
Piano Music: The Lost Romantics in Music, Prof. Wolfgang Mechsner
12.05.2017
9:00 Keynote Lecture III
Tom Mole (Edinburgh), Catching Up with Walking Stewart
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Forgotten and Marginal Romantics II
(Chair: Michaela Hausmann & Oliver Schmidt)
- Ute Berns (Hamburg), Figurations of Deep Time in the Writing of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Andrew Hodgson (Birmingham), Beddoes and ‘the Florid Gothic in Poetry’
- Franca Dellarosa (Bari), Towards a Labouring-Class Poetics: Recovering Edward Rushton
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote Lecture IV
Richard C. Sha (American University), Mary Shelley’s Abortion
15:30 Coffee Break / Refreshments
16:00 Trip to Bremen
Guided Tour of Bremen
Conference Dinner at Schröter’s Leib & Seele; Schnoor
13.05.2017
9:00 Keynote Lecture V
Lilla Crisafulli (Bologna), Mary Shelley, the Ventriloquist: Disguising Gender and Genre in the post-Frankenstein Narrative
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Lost and Unknown Romantics
(Chair: Richard Marggraf Turley)
- Frank Erik Pointner (Duisburg-Essen), Thomas Hood: A Romantic Poet Manqué?
- Anthony Harding (Saskatchevan), Mary Blachford Tighe: ‘No haunting dream’
- Rolf Lessenich (Bonn), Lost Romantics: Nathan Drake and the Rehabilitation of Superstition
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Marginal Romantics and ‘One-Hit Wonders’
(Chair: Lilla Crisafulli)
- Ralf Haekel (Göttingen), Lost in Media – John Polidori’s Hidden Afterlives
- Serena Baiesi (Bologna), “Subjects of this kind are more fitted for narrative than for dramatic representation”: Polidori’s Ernestus Berchtold and the Daring Narrative of Incest
- Jennifer Wawrzinek (FU Berlin), ‘Appearing Together’: Self and World as Sharing in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 On the Margins of the Romantic Canon I
(Chair: Fred Burwick)
- Stefanie John (Münster), Reading Nature in the Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall
- Dennis Weißenfels (Duisburg-Essen), Mo(o)re than Anacreon: Thomas Moore’s Flirtations with the Muse of Byron
19:30 Dinner, Poetry Reading, Book Auction and Music at the Restaurant Elmendorffburg, Vechta
14.05.2017
9:00 Keynote Lecture VI
Michael O’Neill (Durham), ‘This breaking through the walls’: Death and Life in Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ Poetry
10:00 Coffee Break
10:15 On the Margins of the Romantic Canon II
(Chair: Tom Mole)
- Charlotte May (Nottingham), The Letter of Samuel Rogers: Recovering a “perfumed bean”
- Anna Camilleri (Christ Church, Oxford), Don Juan, Diego, and the Art of Digression
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 On the Margins of the Romantic Canon III
(Chair: Michael O’Neill)
- Susanne Schmid (FU Berlin), Editing Marguerite Blessington’s Marmaduke Herbert (1847)
- Victoria Forrester (Leeds), The Life and Literary Works of Eliza Parsons: Authorship and the Literary Marketplace, 1790-1811
12:45 Lunch / End of Conference
