Romantic Catastrophe

British Romantic Writing and Environmental Catastrophe:
an AHRC-funded project at the University of Leeds

[davidhiggins.bsky.social @drdhiggins]

Just received my copy of this exciting volume. It features a co-written essay on ‘Catastrophe’ by me and @tesssomervell and much more besides!

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

Happy birthday @youngpoetsnet, 10yrs old this month! We partnered with them and @HelenMort to create the challenge ‘I am the Universe: Writing Climate Change’.

See the challenge and winning poems here! https://t.co/PtlWh5sVn8 @PoetrySociety

[Young Poets Network @youngpoetsnet]

Happy 10th Birthday Young Poets Network🎉

THANK YOU to all the young poets, teachers and partners from over years! We're throwing a month-long party. Share your favourite memories with #YoungPoetsNetwork and, today, discover our never-before-seen history: https://t.co/FfOwh7WvD6

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

A new special issue on Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change, available to read for free!

[Manifold Scholarship @ManifoldScholar]

This is very cool. Students in the U of Washington English department created "The Mill on the Floss: An Anthropocene Edition," with a new introduction and added video and text resources on Manifold. We love to see it! https://t.co/e3zIb7NeMc @uwlibraries @abnaturalist

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

An article by our project team @drdhiggins and @tesssomervell: what can historical literature teach us about the climate crisis? 📖🌍
https://t.co/LyrBJUWTR0

[Keats-Shelley Assoc. | ksaacomm.bsky.social @KSAAcomm]

‘The Year Without Summer — an angry and unforgettable novel... Guinevere Glasfurd’s climate fable unites Constable, Mary Shelley and a volcano that shook the world’ #Romantics200 https://t.co/3ObGjNtIq3

[davidhiggins.bsky.social @drdhiggins]

Very happy to receive this terrific collection, edited by @AJohnsPutra. It's great to see @BRWEC essays by me and @tesssomervell feature alongside the work of so many excellent researchers.

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

Our project PI @drdhiggins on climate pessimism, for The Ecologist:

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

Tess carried out this research on Wordsworth and the Deluge while she was RA on the BRWEC project; the article is now out in SiR #romanticism #envhum #wordsworth

[Environment+Society @env_and_society]

In 1783, strong earthquakes shook #Calabria. These events, in combination with a dry sulfuric fog, led contemporaries to believe they lived in the time of a “subsurface revolution.” Read more in @katrinkleemann's new Arcadia piece!
https://t.co/qPMlitCdhU
#envhum #envhist

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

This special issue is co-edited by the BRWEC project PI @drdhiggins and RA @tesssomervell, as well as Nigel Clark. 1st essay, by Gillen D’Arcy Wood, available to read now!

[Marianne Brooker @AnnieBrooker_]

When worlds collide - so happy to have published this great piece from @nathankhensley on @the_ecologist -- We 'are students of the moment when the world’s undoing began. What will we do about it?' https://t.co/vKcwrVJLuP

[Andrew Ray @Some_landscapes]

As the glaciers retreat we increasingly have to look to art to see how they once looked. Paintings like this show how they awed travellers of the Romantic era.

[davidhiggins.bsky.social @drdhiggins]

Recording of me talking about Frankenstein, climate change, and the Anthropocene in inspiring surroundings @ImpGalleryPhoto. Draws on research for @BRWEC project funded by @ahrcpress. I haven't dared listen but hopefully there are no howlers...

[davidhiggins.bsky.social @drdhiggins]

Come to @ilkleylitfest tomorrow night to hear me talk on Frankenstein and climate change! Based on research supported by @LeedsUniAHC @LeedsUniEnglish @ahrcpress and published by @PalgraveLit.

[Land Lines @LandLinesNature]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming conference, Nature Writing's Future Pasts! Abstract deadline is 1st December 2018. Looking forward to seeing you there! Link to full CfP is here on our blog: https://t.co/LLwesdvJle

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

Babe! wert thou brightly slumbering
Upon thy mother's breast,
When suddenly the fiery tomb
Shut round each gentle guest?
...
Love, human love! what art thou?
Thy print upon the dust
Outlives the cities of renown
Wherein the mighty trust!

Felicia Hemans, ‘The Image in Lava’

[asleuki @asleuki]

David Higgins giving his prize-winning lecture on “Frankenstein and the Good Anthropocene” at the ASLE-UKI / Orkney Science Festival event in Stromness. @drdhiggins

[Romantic Catastrophe @BRWEC]

Our PI @drdhiggins gives an interview with @BARS_official on his latest book, the major research output of the BRWEC project! 🌋

[British Association for Romantic Studies @BARS_official]

New Five Questions interview (no. 53): @drdhiggins on his new book British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene: Writing Tambora, published by @PalgraveLit: https://t.co/ZvJMGSHfKh.