From LP 70: 'Curating Intercultural Action: Agency between Epistemologies' by Pavel Drábek (Emeritus Professor, uniofhull.bsky.social). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-70-6/

The latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia has been published in open access: ‘Romanticism across Borders: Transnational Exchanges, Identities and Agencies’, edited by Camille Adnot, Felix Duperrier, and @paulinehortolland.bsky.social 🔓 litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2026...

From LP 70: 'Olga Ntenta’s Greek Precarious Body: The Body in the Costume of Conflict' by Valeriya Sabitova @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz @charlesuni.cuni.cz. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-70-5/

From LP 70: 'Tragic Replay: Performativity, Myth and Reality in Milo Rau’s "Medea’s Children"' by Clare Wallace @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz @charlesuni.cuni.cz. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-70-4/

From LP 70: 'Theatrical Responses to Wall Building: David Hare, Robert Schenkkan, Stacey Gregg' by Ondřej Pilný (Centre for Irish Studies, @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz @charlesuni.cuni.cz). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-70-3/

From LP 70: 'Performativity of Socio-Political Double Binds' by Alice Koubová (@flu-cas.bsky.social & Academy of Performing Arts), discussing two cases of artistic research: 'Strachy' (Fears), and 'Propojme se včera' (Let’s Connect Yesterday). 🔓 Read in open access: tinyurl.com/bdhfhb63

From LP 70: 'Performing Identities in a Mediatised Age,' edited by Martin Procházka and Ondřej Pilný @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz @charlesuni.cuni.cz. 🔓 Read the full issue in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025...

In May, the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz @charlesuni.cuni.cz, hosted the conference ‘"Disaster Nationalism" and Present-day Europe’. Our winter issue, edited by Martin Procházka & Mirka Horová, will publish essays based on selected papers from the event.

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On 22–23 May 2026, the interdisciplinary conference was organised by Prof Martin Procházka and Dr Mirka Horová as part of the project CoRe. The conference took its main theme from Richard Seymour’s…

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From LP 69 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': '"Surprised and Not Surprised:" Varieties of Astonishment in Austen’s Novels' by Christopher R. Miller (@cuny.edu College of Staten Island). Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From LP 69: Mária Kurdi reviews the monograph 'Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland' @academic.oup.com by Marilynn Richtarik. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-11/

From LP 69 'Romantic Shock & Surprise': 'Shelley’s Alastor and the Poetics of Inflammatory Shock' by Merrilees Roberts @qmul.bsky.social. Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From LP 69 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': '"Proging" the Darkness in John Clare’s "The Mouse’s Nest"' by Markus Poetzsch (Wilfrid Laurier University). Poetzsch’s analysis of Clare's sonnet draws on ecocriticism and dark ecology. Available in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

“‘Marmoreality:’ Re-Animating the Classical Body in the Romantic Present” by Sophie Thomas @torontomet.bsky.social explores the ‘re-animation” of the Classical body in early nineteenth-century literature and visual as well as material culture. Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From Litteraria Pragensia 69: 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': 'Selling Shock at the Sans Pareil: The Early Shows of Jane and John Scott' by Henry James Mason (@qmul.bsky.social). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-6/

Our latest issue, 'Performing Identities in a Mediatised Age', has just bee published in open access: tinyurl.com/52r4pnv7 🔓 Edited by Martin Procházka & Ondřej Pilný, it brings together essays from a conference held at @charlesuni.cuni.cz in 2025 as part of the project 'CoRe: Beyond Security.'

From our latest issue on 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': 'Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe' by Stephanie O'Rourke (@arthistorysta.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-5/

From our latest issue: “Radical Reform and the Shock of the Past in Mary Robinson’s Vancenza” by @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social (Birkbeck, University of London). Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From our latest issue: “‘Deep the Raven Wades in Gore:’ Death Songs and the Norse-Gothic Spectacle” by @sharonchoe.bsky.social (University of Copenhagen). 🔓 Read in open access: doi.org/10.14712/257...

From our latest issue: “Revolutionary Shocks in Translation: Political and Linguistic Change in the Discourse of Radical Translators (1789-1815)” by Rosa Mucignat (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-2/

Our current issue "Romantic Shock and Surprise", edited by David Duff and Laurent Folliot, examines "manifestations of aesthetic shock and surprise across a broad spectrum of Romantic literature from Britain and beyond." 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-1/

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From LP 68: "'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode" by Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-10/

From LP 68: 'Blake's Public Addresses' by David Duff (Queen Mary University of London). Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-9/

From LP 68: 'Poetic/Rhetorical Ethos and the Performative Power of Words in the 'French' Books of The Prelude' by Catherine Bois (Université Paris Nanterre), examining The Prelude in the context of eighteenth-century rhetoric. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-8/

The new LP issue has arrived: 'Romantic Shock and Surprise,' edited by David Duff (Queen Mary University of London) and Laurent Folliot @sorbonne-universite.fr. Université Cover design by Karolína Bendová. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025...

In our latest issue: "'Religion’s firm-rooted truths': Richard Polwhele, Pulpit Oratory and Loyalist Romanticism in the English Province" by Dafydd Moore @plymuni.bsky.social. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-7/

From our latest issue: "'The spouting rant of high-toned exclamation': The Art of Oral/Aural Caricature in Paine’s Rights Of Man" by Pierre Lurbe (@sorbonne-universite.fr). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-5/

In our latest issue: 'La voix de la girouette: The French Connections of John Thelwall’s Elocutionary Theory' by Judith Thompson (@dalhousie.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-4/

In our latest issue: 'Toasting, Oratory and Parody in Britain during the French Revolution' by Rémy Duthille (Université Bordeaux Montaigne). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-3/

From the latest LP issue on 'Oaths, Odes and Orations': 'How to Do Things with Oaths: Militancy and Loyalty in the French Revolutions' by Francesco Buscemi @francescobuscemi.bsky.social, University of Groningen @rug.nl. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-2/