Join us for a drink and discussion about literature and art in the twentieth century, tracing the threads of romanticism as it twists and turns throughout modernist works. This month we’ll be thinking about neo-romantic modernisms in response to the return to home.

Just as modernist studies seem now to be revisiting the origins and inception of given artistic activity, this network will commence by discussing the various manifestations of the Romanticist theme ‘Return to Home.’

We are delighted to invite thinkers of all disciplines to contribute this month to a discussion about the way landscape, domesticity and the home is explored in Romanticism and the significance of this as it appears in modern works.

We will look at several short but significant texts as a catalyst for this conversation.

o Two of these readings are small extracts from Alexandra Harris' 'Romantic Moderns'. The first extract is…