Romanticism revisited

The ridiculous side of Romanticism, a new biopic of Emily Brontë and an exhibition about Fuseli and women are on today's agenda as Shahidha Bari is joined by New Generation Thinkers Emma Butcher, Sophie Oliver, Chris Harding and by Andrew McInnes.

Emily from writer/director Frances O'Connor starring Emma Mackey as Emily Brontë opens at cinemas across the UK this week.

Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism runs at the Courtauld Gallery in London from Oct 14th to Jan 8th 2023

Dr Andrew McInnes from Edge Hill University runs the Romantic Ridiculous project https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/ridicule-is-nothing-to-be-scared-of/

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born 21 October 1772. You can find out about more events for Coleridge 2022 at https://www.friendsofcoleridge.com/

You can find more about Fuseli in the book Dinner with Joseph Johnson written by New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize - she discussed it in an episode of Free Thinking called Teaching and Inspiration https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00169jh

Emma Butcher wrote a short postcard about Branwell Bronte which you can find halfway through this episode of Free Thinking https://bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08slx9y

Producer: Luke Mulhall