Overview:

The Centre for Regional Cultures (CRC) is a new initiative housed within the School of English Studies at Nottingham. 

As well as acting as an umbrella for the existing ‘Centre for the study of Byron and Romanticism’ and the ‘D. H. Lawrence Research Centre’, the CRC is developing its own research strategies and research projects relating to regional identities and regional cultures. 

Inaugural event:

The CRC’s first event was a one-day conference on ‘Romantic Correspondence(s)’ (4 November 2005), co-organised with the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, Newstead Abbey and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.  For further details: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/conference/romantic_correspondences.htm

New research project:

The ‘Romantic Correspondence(s)’ conference was directly related to the CRC’s major new research project, an electronic edition of The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. 

This will be the first-ever collected edition of the correspondence of a writer central to the literary, political and social controversies of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. 

A large-scale, inter-institutional collaboration, the Letters will be general edited by Lynda Pratt (Nottingham) and Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent).  Individual volumes will be edited by Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford, Ian Packer, Lynda Pratt and W. A. Speck.  David Eastwood (UEA), Nicholas Roe (St Andrews) and Duncan Wu (Oxford) are consultative editors for the project.  It will be published by Romantic Circles, www.rc.umd.edu

Events:

‘Romantic Geographies’ (15 June 2006): Professor Karen O’Brien (Warwick) and Dr Diego Saglia (Parma) spoke on ‘Voluntary Displacements: Emigration within and beyond the British Isles in Wordsworth and Southey’. 

This web-site is under development and new pages and links, including information on Affiliations, Archives, Events and Projects, will be added shortly. 

Contact Information:

If you would like any further information about the Centre for Regional Cultures please contact:

Dr Lynda Pratt
School of English Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Tel: 0115 84 67287
e-mail: Lynda.Pratt@nottingham.ac.uk