Romanticism

• Explicating John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (according to Romantic scholar Dr. Helen Vendler)
• PreRomantic Trends and Romanticism Trends--an overview
• On-line Sources for upper division/graduate Students in Literary Research, including literary and theoretical terms.
• The Sublime: Notes and links to a theoretical overview of this complex conception
• Excerpts from Brooks and Warren's Understanding Poetry

• Voice of the Shuttle: the most up-to-date index from Alan Lui at UCSB to current internet studies in literature.
  • New scholarly books for the 19th century: from Voice of the Shuttle
• Romantic Related Sites: provides a comprehensive overview of Romantic sites
  • Web Sites of Special Literary Interest, a list of current and very useful sites relating to Romanticism.
• Romantic Painting & Poetry
• Electronic Resources for the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century

• 19th-Century London Stage: An exploration: a new site from University of Washington with links to exciting aspects of the drama during this period.
• Bert O. States's "Performance as Metaphor"--on line article from Theatre Journal
• Literature in Great Britain, the Victorians and their Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Precursors: A Chronology
• Romantic Chronology
• Victorian Literary Techniques, Genres,and Theory
• Romantic Circles:Virtual Conference Series on Romanticism
• The Eighteenth Century Resources: from Milton to Keats, maintained by Jack Lynch--now at Rutgers at Newark, NJ
• Nineteenth-Century Literature--an on-line publication
• The British Library
• The Literary Gothic--a new, independent site that is very thorough
  • Overviews, directories, and collections
  • Marshall Brown, "A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel"
• The Gothic Novel: An Introduction
• The Gothic: Materials for Study
• Philosophers associated with the Romantic period
• Victorian Poetry Journal: free access to articles
• Romantic Era Women Writers
• The Corvey Project: a new link for the on-going study of women writers during the Romantic Period
• LitLinks: for the sophisticated net scholar
• In progress-- Interactive Romantic poetry/poets

Journals, list serves, e-journal articles, and excerpts from essays.

• Excerpts of Major Romantic Criticism: See what leading critics in the field are contemplating and discussing.
• Romanticism on the Net: New scholarly e-journal articles
• British Women Playwrights Around 1800
• Soundings: a new on-line Journal in the Humanities
• Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies web site, includes papers from last year's papers.
• North American Association for Romantic Studies: a new web page for a great source of information, including a very helpful listserve
• Romantic Circle: a very good source for Romantic studies on the internet
  • Romantic Passion
  • The Sublime and the Domestic: Structures of Mediation in the Gothic (U. Virginia)
  • Romantic Praxis: Theory and Criticism, up-to-date-articles and discussions in e-journals
• A List of Works Cited: for bibliography for Romantic sources (somewhat dated, but in the process of becoming current).
• Contents of Keats-Shelley Journal (including past issues)
• Current Criticism: On-line articles:
  • "Coleridge, the Return to Nature, and the New Anti-Romanticism: An Essay in Polemic" by Seamus Perry
  • "The Circulation of Romantic Creativity: Coleridge, Drama, and the Question of Translation" by Matthew Scott
  • W. J. T. Mitchell's "Ekphrasis and the Other"
  • On-line text of Cradled by Wrong: Shelley's Ethics of Writing and the Case of "Julian and Maddalo"
  • "Poetry as Enforcement: Conquering the Muse in Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'" by Kris Steyaert
  • Keats, Teats, and the Fane of Poetry by Nelson Hilton

For Links to Individual Romantic Period Authors click on these books.