Literary Resources -- Romantic

• Mailing lists and calls for papers; also Oxford's Romanticism Conferences Page
• Voice of the Shuttle -- Romantics -- Vos is the best general resource out there, and the Romantics page is probably the strongest of the lot.
• Course Syllabi
• General Sites:
  • Romantic Circles (Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, Donald H. Reiman, and Carl Stahmer)-- The most important Romanticism resource on the Web. Features newly edited electronic texts, conference and publication announcements, and many other scholarly resources. O si sic omnes!
  • Romanticism On the Net: A Peer-Reviewed, Electronic Journal Devoted to Romantic Studies (Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Oxford), including the Conferences Page -- Another excellent Romanticism resource.
  • NASSR (Waterloo) -- The most important professional society for Romantic studies.
  • Romanticism URL List (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio) -- A list of major Romanticism sites on the Web, with commentary on a few of them.
  • Romantic Links, Home Pages, and Electronic Texts (Michael Gamer, Penn) -- Another large list of links.
  • The Romantics Page (Univ. of New Mexico) -- Another link page, this one including a section on American Romanticism (Dickinson, Emerson, Whitman).
  • A Select Romanticism Bibliography (Nicholas Halmi, McMaster) -- A very handy annotated bibliography of editions, biographies, and important criticism on major Romantic figures: Burke, Barbauld, Smith, Blake, Robinson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, de Quincey, Peacock, Byron, P. B. Shelley, Hemans, Keats, and Mary Shelley. The overviews of Romanticism are also useful.
  • Romanticism: Selective Bibliography (Adriana Craciun, Loyola Univ. Chicago) -- A useful (but unannotated) bibliography of editions, biographies, and critical studies of Romantic topics and writers: Blake, Burney, Byron, Coleridge, Dacre, Hays, Hemans, Keats, Landon, Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth. The recommendations on overviews of Romanticism and topics such as the novel, women, the Gothic, and sensibility are especially extensive.
  • Anthologies and Miscellanies on 18th-c. and Romantic Literature (Laura Mandell and Rita Raley) -- Tables of contents and sometimes introductions and prefaces from anthologies of 18th- and 19th-c. literature from the early 18th century to the present. Useful both for current pedagogical purposes (in comparing in-print anthologies) and for offering a historical view of the canon.
  • Canon and Web: MLA '96 -- A collection of papers and presentations from 1996's MLA session on the Romantic canon and the Web. Edited by Alan Liu, with contributions by Laura Mandell, Joseph Viscomi, Jack Lynch, and Elizabeth Fay, and responses by Michael Gamer, Mori Saffran, and Steven E. Jones.
  • Fictional Representations of Romantics and Romanticism: An Annotated Bibliography (Romantic Circles) -- "This bibliography lists items (books, plays, films, etc.) that represent historical Romantic figures in fictional contexts." Several dozen works, some with brief annotations.
  • Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument) (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio) -- "an annotated list of critical and theoretical works about the activity of canonizing as it arose during the Romantic Era, and about the concept of "literary period" that arose with it."
  • The Romantic Chronology (UCSB) -- An extensive timeline of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes powerful search capabilities. O si sic omnes!
  • Romanticism: CD-ROM (David S. Miall and Duncan Wu) -- An overview of the CD-ROM to accompany Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1994). Includes downloadable samples (for PCs only).
  • Romantics Unbound: A Hypertextual Learning Space (David S. Hogsette, NYIT) -- "Romantics Unbound is my attempt to connect teachers and students to the wealth of Romanticism material available on the Internet." Includes pages on Romatnic writers, artists, musicians, and the Gothic. Requires frames.
  • New Books in Nineteenth-Century British Studies (USC) -- Announcements and selected reviews of books in Romantic and Victorian studies since 1995. "Our goal is to be a comprehensive interdisciplinary guide to scholarship on nineteenth-century Britain. Therefore, we have chosen to define the period broadly in the interests of inclusivity."
  • 19th Century Authors in UK (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
  • Romanticism and the Law (Romantic Circles) -- Scholarly hypertext essay collection, edited by Michael Macovski.
  • Romantische Anthropologie (Uli Wunderlich and Adam Lawrence) -- Guide to Romantic-era anthropology, with profiles of Autenrieth, Baader, Brandis, Burdach, Carus, Doellinger, Ennemoser, Goerres, Heinroth, Ideler, Kieser, Leupoldt, Nasse, Oken, Schubert, Steffens, Troxler, and Windischmann, with more to come. Biographies, bibliographies, and some illustrations -- all very impressive. In German and English.
  • Romantic Prose Fiction (Uwe Spoerl) -- Overview of an in-progress volume in the ICLA Comparative Literary History Series, with useful bibliographies and links on Romantic prose across Europe. Admirably comparative.
  • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (Notre Dame)
  • British Periodicals: The Early Nineteenth Century (Minnesota)
  • Fashion and Fun in 1810 (UCR)
  • Edinburghers page, including Sir Walter Scott
  • Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text -- Information on the Edition Corvey and a collection of original articles on Romantic topics.
  • Women Writers (see also individual entries):
    • British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (BWRP) (Nancy Kushigan) -- A library of electronic texts edited from originals in the Shields Library, Univ. of California, Davis. Texts are in SGML.
    • Women Playwrights around 1800 (Thomas C. Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Stanford) -- An extensive and scholarly archive of Romantic women dramatists, including E-texts, bibliographies, and original essays. Requires frames.
    • Corvey Women Writers on the Web (Sheffield-Hallam) -- The goal is "to make fully searchable, peer-reviewed research available to all interested academics, scholars and researchers. ... Focuses on the 1,065 English belles-lettres titles -- around 3,000 volumes -- by women authors," 1796-1834. Now just bibliographical information, no full-text. Still, very extensive, very scholarly.
    • Works by Women and Anonymous Writers, 1770-1830, in the Rare Book Collection of Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania (Judith Pascoe, Univ. of Iowa) -- A useful index of late-century and Romantic women authors in one of the best collections of fiction of the period.
    • The Bluestocking Archive (Elizabeth Fay, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston) -- "This archive assumes a deep relation between the intellectual and social movement of the Bluestockings, the culture and cult of Sensibility and High Romanticism. It is an archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of sensibility as it is derived from the Bluestockings' concerns with aesthetics, and with women's aesthetic achievements."
    • Women Romantic Writers (A. Craciun, Loyola Univ., Chicago) -- Catalogue of electronic texts, cultural and visual resources, and relevant Web sites.
    • Women of the Romantic Period (Texas) -- "This interactive hypertext uses Richard Polwhele's poem 'The Unsex'd Females' to introduce students and scholars alike to some of the British Romantic Period's foremost female contributors." Heavily glossed text of Polwhele's poem, with biographical material on the women mentioned in it.
  • Gothicism:
    • The Gothic: Materials for Study (McGann and Spacks, Virginia) -- One of two class projects from a course called "The Novel of Sensibility." Discussions of Gothic psychology, female Gothic, the supernatural, and Gothic drama. Includes an annotated bibliography of several dozen secondary items, most published since the seventies.
    • The Literary Gothic Page -- "A Web site for all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related Gothic, supernaturalist, and "weird" literature prior to the mid-twentieth century." Includes links to other Gothic sites, reviews of books on the Gothic, and a great many links to E-texts. Extensive, but not always scholarly.
    • Gothic Literature (AOL) -- "The Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature which flourished in England from 1764 to 1820. This site is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of resources available on the web. An introduction to the Gothic novel, collected summaries, papers, critical and bibliographical information and related sites are assembled together to expedite research." Organization is haphazard, and the backgrounds sometimes make the text hard to read.
    • Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read (Douglass Thomson, Georgia Southern Univ.) -- "A list of Gothic works read by the major writers of the period 1780-1830." Gothic reading lists for Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with evidence that the authors read the books in question.
    • The Sickly Taper (Fred Frank, Allegheny College) -- Primary and secondary bibliographies on the Gothic, with links to other Web sites.
• Jane Austen:
  • Jane Austen Info Page (Henry Churchyard) -- The most extensive Auten page on the Web, including texts (many with rudimentary annotations), a biographical sketch, a few images, a selected bibliography, as well as some jokes and other jeux d'esprit.
  • American Society of Jane Austen Scholars (Univ. of Georgia and Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater) -- Includes the on-line journal Austen Quarterly (in fact semi-annual) and links to other Austen resources.
  • Jane Austen Society of North America -- An extensive site on Austen for both scholars and Janeites. Includes the on-line journal Persuasions.
  • Jane Austen Page (James Dawe, Alberta) -- A page of links to other resources, along with a discussion of recent Austen films.
  • Guide to the Jane Austen Collection, Goucher College -- A list of items in the extensive collection at Goucher College.
  • The Jane Austen Homepage -- A fan page, more popular than scholarly.
  • The Jane Austen Bulletin Board -- A Web-based discussion group; minimal traffic.
  • Jane Austen Page (in German) -- Aimed at readers of romance novels.
  • Calendars for Jane Austen's Novels (Ellen Moody, GMU) -- Handy and extensive chronologies to the novels.
• Joanna Baillie:
  • Joanna Baillie (Guy White, Univ. of Windsor) -- A well organized collection of links, with a biography, bibliography, electronic texts, and images.
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld:
  • The Anna Laetitia Barbauld Web Site (Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri, Univ. of Saskatchewan) -- Hypertext editions of Barbauld's poetry and prose, with a chronology and several works of criticism from the eighteenth century to the present. Requires frames.
  • Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (Celebration of Women Writers, CMU) -- A brief but intelligent biography, with selections from her works and a bibliography of primary texts.
• William Blake:
  • The Blake Archive (Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi; Virginia) -- The most important (and impressive) Blake resource on the Web. Superb reproductions of Blake's engravings and careful transcriptions of his text, with new works and copies of works added regularly. O si sic omnes!
  • The Digital Blake Project (Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Georgia) -- A graphics-intensive hypertext edition of the Songs, along with the complete Erdman text of Blake's poems.
  • Blake eE Concordance -- Concordance to the on-line Erdman edition of Blake.
  • William Blake: A Critical Essay
  • The Blake Multimedia Project (Steve Marx, CalPoly) -- Limited demonstration of "a hypertext interactive edition that displays the plates on a monitor or projects them on a screen. It allows the user to call up glossaries, critical intepretations, explications and magnifications of details, comparisons to other plates, and teaching exercises in print and audio modes."
  • Blake Online Archive (Seth Ross, AlbionBooks) -- Web archive of "an electronic conference & mailing list dedicated to the life & work of William Blake."
  • Blake Web (David W. Downie, Univ. of Nebraska) -- Part of an MA thesis on Blake, including a short biogrpahy, links to the works, and many color facsimiles of the plates (provenance is not identified). Heavy on graphics and music; requires frames.
  • Blake Page (Richard Record) -- A big collection of electronic texts and color graphics of the plates (the source of the plates is not identified).
  • Blake's "The Four Zoas" Fetishized: An Experimental Hypertext (Bill Ruegg, Florida) -- Let's italicize experimental.
  • Blake Timeline (Charles Beauvais, Conn. College) -- A handy year-by-year chronology of Blake's life.
  • The Tyger Page (Randall Hughes) -- A Web study of Blake's "The Tyger." Mostly links to other Blake resources. Requires a frames-compatible browser.
  • Annotated bibliographies:
    • "Infant Joy"
    • "The Blossom"
    • The Tyger
    • "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
• Robert Burns:
  • The Sons of Ayrshire (Tom Kinsella, Stockton State) -- Brief hypertext guide to Boswell and Burns.
  • Guide to Boswell and Burns (OGI) -- Backgrounds, commentaries, and texts of two short pieces by Boswell and two by Burns.
• Thomas Chatterton:
  • Thomas Chatterton -- Includes short biography, Chatterton's will, and several of his works.
• John Clare:
  • The John Clare Page (Simon Kovesi, Nottingham Trent Univ.)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  • S. T. Coleridge Home Page (Virginia) -- An important and extensive archive, mostly of primary texts, but also with chronologies, recommended reading, a glossary, &c.
• William Cowper:
  • Cowper/Newton Museum, Olney
• William Godwin:
  • Godwin Graphics (Pitzer's Anarchist Archives) -- Nine engravings of Godwin and Wollstonecraft.
• Johann Goethe:
  • Goethe Page (Katharena Eiermann)
• Felicia Hemans:
  • Felicia Hemans (Celebration of Women Writers, CMU) -- Short biography and primary bibliography, with links to some poems on-line.
  • Chronology of Felicia Hemans and Her Circle (Nanora Sweet, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis)
• William Hone:
  • William Hone, His Homepage (Kyle Grimes, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham) -- "William Hone (1780-1842) was a prominent radical writer, parodist, antiquarian and publisher during the early decades of the nineteenth century." The site consists of several bibliographies of primary and secondary works.
• John Keats:
  • The Keats-Shelley Journal -- Edited by Steven Jones. Information on the journal (not available on-line), with events announcements and links to other Keats and Shelley resources.
  • Keats-Shelley Journal Bibliography
  • Exhibitions: Keats (British Library) -- Very brief snippets on Keats's life and works, with audio files of Sally Brown reading several poems.
  • Keats and Shelley House, Rome -- Attractive, but of more use to tourists visiting the house than to scholars. Graphics-heavy, and requires frames.
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (LEL):
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Page (Glenn Dibert-Himes, Sheffield-Hallam Univ.) -- An extensive collection of material on LEL, including a biographical sketch, critical essays, a few texts, and a large bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
• Thomas Love Peacock:
  • Thomas Love Peacock Society -- A great many E-texts of Peacock's novels and poetry, a complete list of works, biographical and critical excerpts, a chat group, and links. Very extensive.
• Mary Darby Robinson:
  • Mary Darby Robinson (Mary Mark, CMU) -- Biography, illustrations, selected works, parimary bibliography.
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site (Shanon Lawson, Delaware; Romantic Circles) -- Thorough and accurate timeline, along with the texts of early reviews and a short secondary bibliography.
  • Making Monsters: A Web Site Devoted to Mary Shelley and Her Novel Frankenstein (Cynthia Hamberg) -- E-text, biography, links, and brief notes on contexts.
  • Hail Mary Shelley for her Frankenstein exercise of mind -- An unscholarly reading of the novel.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley:
  • The Keats-Shelley Journal -- Edited by Steven Jones. Information on the journal (not available on-line), with events announcements and links to other Keats and Shelley resources.
  • Keats-Shelley Journal Bibliography
  • Keats and Shelley House, Rome (requires frames) -- Attractive, but of more use to tourists visiting the house than to scholars. Graphics-heavy, and requires frames.
• Sir Walter Scott:
  • Waverley Hypertext Homepage (Andre Monnickendam) -- Hypertext edition of Scott's Waverley, including commentary and contexts. Useful summaries of the views of major critics.
• William Wordsworth:
  • Lyrical Ballads Hypertext Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault) -- In-progress scholarly hypertext edition showing the various states of the poems in Lyrical Ballads. Requires frames.
  • Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project (Ron Tetreault and Bruce Graver, Dalhousie) -- Several of Wordsworth's poems in page images, diplomatic transcriptions, and elaborate hypertext collations. Very impressive. Requires frames.
  • Wordsworth Variorum Archive (James M. Garrett, USC) -- In-progress edition of Wordsworth's poetry, showing the variants from all a number of editions. Requires frames.
  • History of Composition and Select Bibliography of The Prelude (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio) -- Background information, bibliographies for several of the books of the Prelude, and transcriptions of the most important passages in the poem.
  • TCG's Wordsworth Page (USD) -- Quotations, links, and a few transcriptions. Bad color scheme makes it hard to read.
  • The Wordsworth Trust, Centre for British Romanticism -- Information on the Trust and Dove Cottage.