Welcome to CRECS

The Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar supports research and stimulates discussion into literary and cultural studies between 1680 and 1840 in Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy, and among its partners. Its aims are to promote a welcoming, informal and innovative platform open to students and researchers within the institution and beyond.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!—When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro’ every Stage of Life.

Eliza Haywood