European Romantic Review Best Article Prize

European Romantic Review

About the prize

In 2004, NASSR and European Romantic Review instituted an annual prize for the best essay published in European Romantic Review. Each competition considers all of the essays published in that year’s volume of European Romantic Review. You can browse the winning articles below.

Year	Author(s)	Article	Volume	Issue
2021	Lisa Ann Robertson (University of South Dakota, USA)	“Kindred Forms”: Erasmus Darwin’s Posthuman Ethics of Relationality	32	5-6
2020	Claire Connolly (University College Cork, Ireland)	The Secret of Castle Rackrent	31	6
2019	Neşe Devenot (Cape Western Reserve University, USA)	Medical Ecstasies: Chemical Synthesis and Self-Experimentation in Romantic Science and Poetry	30	1
2018	Daisy Hay (University of Exeter, UK)	Wanderers Without a Home”: Houses and Houselessness in the Johnson Circle	29	5
2017	Kandice Sharren (Simon Fraser University, Canada)	The Texture of Sympathy: Narrating Sympathetic Failure in Frances Burney’s Camilla and The Wanderer	28	6
2016	Noah Comet (US Naval Academy, Maryland, USA)	Wild Childe: Byron and the Yellowstone Frontier	27	6
2015	Lisa Ann Robertson (University of Alberta, Canada)	“Swallowed Up In Impression”: Humphry Davy's Materialist Theory of Embodied Transcendence and William Wordsworth's “Tintern Abbey”	26	5
2014	Mary Ellen Bellanca (University of South Carolina at Sumter, USA)	After-Life-Writing: Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals in the Memoirs of William Wordsworth	25	2
2013	Kate Flint (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)	More rapid than the lightning's flash”: Photography, Suddenness, and the Afterlife of Romantic Illumination	24	3
2012	Karen Junod (University of Fibourg, Switzerland)	Crabb Robinson, Blake, and Perthes's Vaterländisches Museum (1810–1811)	23	4
2011	Nathaniel Leach (Cape Breton University, Canada)	The Shame of the Nation: Performing History in Schiller, Manzoni and Byron	22	2
2010	Hadley J. Mozer (Flagler College, St. Augustine, USA)	“Ozymandias,” or De Casibus Lord Byron: Literary Celebrity on the Rocks	21	6
2009	Julia V. Douthwaite and Daniel Richter (both at University of Notre Dame, USA)	The Frankenstein of the French Revolution: Nogaret’s automaton tale of 1790	20	3
2008	Robyn L. Schiffman (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA)	Werther and the epistolary novel	19	4
2007	Alex J. Dick (University of British Columbia, Canada)	“The Ghost of Gold”: Forgery Trials and the Standard of Value in Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy	18	3
2006	Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol, UK)	“What So Many Have Told, Who Would Tell Again?”: Romanticism and the Commonplaces of Rome	17	5
2005	Tilar J. Mazzeo (Colby College, ME, USA)	The impossibility of being Anglo‐American: the rhetoric of emigration and transatlanticism in British Romantic culture, 1791–1833	16	1
2004	Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University, USA)	Sacrificial Sites, Place-Keeping, and ‘Pre-History’ in Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’	15	2

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