A Selection of Piano Recordings by Jennifer Castleton

On the 140th Anniversary of Parry’s Composition
and the Bicentenary of Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound

This volume considers the place of Romantic works and the Romantic period itself in the work of one of the most important twentieth-century theorists of culture, Raymond Williams. After an introduction that pays particular attention to central concepts passed down from Williams like “structure of feeling” and “cultural formation,” these essays revisit Williams over thirty years after his death to...

Nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish literature engages a wide range of thematic and aesthetic preoccupations.  This volume brings together several essays that highlight such breadth, even as the essays converge upon several questions that recur consistently throughout this literature:  what does it mean to advertise one’s subjectivity, especially where the expression of...

Keats in Popular Culture posits Keats’s two-hundred year reception history as an exemplary case for examining popular culture as a generative, shape-shifting borderland where liking/loving and responding to literature intermingles, sometimes indistinguishably, the tastes of the people and the elite. This collection of essays recalls three longstanding embarrassments for teachers and...
This volume investigates the afterlives of British Romantic poets in the Hispanophone world with an emphasis on Latin American authors. Reframing the outdated model of a European center and a New World periphery, we ask the following questions: To what extent has translation shaped or impeded the dissemination of otherwise global Romantic texts throughout countries like Argentina, Cuba, Colombia...

Below is a snaphsot of some of the document genres represented at RC. A filterable list of all resources and genres is available here.

Fiction

Pause
Frankenstein, Edited by Stuart Curran
Frankenstein | 1817, 1830
This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen years, provides the texts of both the 1818 and 1831 editions, as well as copious...
Fables Ancient and Modern, by Edward Baldwin, Esq. | 1804, 1806
This is the first installment of a complete critical edition of Godwin’s ten contributions to his Juvenile Library. It makes available for the first time since 1824 the first text that Godwin both...
The Last Man, Edited by Steven E. Jones
The Last Man | 1825
Includes HTML, ASCII, and SGML versions, other works by Mary Shelley, works and excerpts from works cited by Shelley, bibliography, maps, images...
Alroy, Edited by Sheila A. Spector
Wondrous Tale of Alroy
This early novel, first published in 1833, represents Disraeli in "romantic mode." This version features the novel, an introduction, annotations, reprints of...
The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra
"The Mortal Immortal" | 1832
Includes HTML and ASCII versions, related contemporary literary works, critical bibliography, print history, images, writings on the text, & notes.
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces | 1780, 1783
This electronic edition makes available the works of the mostly unknown late-eighteenth-century poet and teacher Catherine Upton, including The Siege of Gibraltar (1781), an epistolary prose...

Poetry

Pause
Lyrical Ballads, Edited by Ron Tetrault and Bruce Graver
Lyrical Ballads | 1797, 1799, 1801, 1804
This electronic edition makes available all 4 versions of Lyrical Ballads in the form of transcriptions edited from original printed copies, accompanied by images of each page. Enables...
Collected Writings of Robert Bloomfield banner
Collected Writings of Robert Bloomfield
Admired by Wordsworth and Southey, called by Clare 'the greatest Pastoral Poet England ever gave birth too’, Robert Bloomfield was one of the bestselling poets of the nineteenth century. A labouring-...
Wat Tyler, a Dramatic Poem by Robert Southey Electronic Edition Edited by Matt Hill
Wat Tyler | 1816, 1834, 1849, 1859
An electronic edition of Robert Southey's poem based on the peasants' rebellion of 1381. This edition provides contextual background on the poem's embattled...
The Wanderings of Cain, Edited by N. Santilli
"Wanderings of Cain" | 1827, 1833
Publishes, for the first time, all the fragments of this unfinished poem in one edition. Includes a composite reading text, piecing together all the fragments...
Thoughts in Prison, Edited by Charles J. Rzepka
Thoughts in Prison | 1776
Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the publication of William Dodd's long poem Thoughts in Prison (1777). Written while he was awaiting execution for forgery in his Newgate prison cell...
Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature 1760-1830, Edited By Robert W. Rix
Norse Romanticism
This edition collects twenty-one British writers from c. 1760–1830, a period which is today associated with the rise of Romantic sensibilities. A number of literary works in Britain were inspired by...
The Temple of Nature, Edited by Martin Priestman
The Temple of Nature | 1802
The first fully annotated edition of Erasmus Darwin's influential scientific poem and its copious original notes; including the first publication, from draft...
Verses Transcribed for H.T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin
Verses Transcribed for H.T. | 1804
Published here for the first time, Verses Transcribed for H.T. is a manuscript collection of 121 original lyric poems with 72 original illustrations that Mary Tighe prepared in 1805 as she...
Poems 1773, Edited by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri
Poems | 1772
Includes transcriptions, photo reproductions of the original volume, critical apparatus, & a "Poem Web," featuring detailed commentary & contextual materials for "On a Lady's Writing."
The Banks of Wye by Robert Bloomfield, Edited by Tim Fulford
The Banks of Wye | 1810, 1812, 1822
An edition of Robert Bloomfield's multimedia picturesque tour of the Wye valley. Poem, tour journal, sketchbook. This edition presents a rare surviving example of the kind of multimedia production...
The Sceptic, Edited by Nanora Sweet and Barbara Taylor
The Sceptic; A Poem: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue
This edition places Hemans in direct contention with Byron over belief in an afterlife. Includes letters, reviews, poems...
British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815, by Betty T. Bennet, Edited by Orianne Smith
British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism | 1792 to 1814
An electronic edition of Bennett's collection of 350 poems highlighting the complex attitudes to the wars of the period. Includes Bennett's original...
The Devil's Walk, Edited by Neil Fraistat and Donald H. Reiman
The Devil's Walk
Includes HTML formatted texts, editors' introduction, critically edited text, diplomatic transcription, photofacsimile, & clear reading texts. Also...
L.E.L.'s Verses and the Keepsake for 1829, Edited by Terence Hoagwood, Martin Jacobsen, and Kathryn Ledbetter
"Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829 | 1828
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcriptions, facsimile pages, biography, bibliography, & commentary.
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces | 1780, 1783
This electronic edition makes available the works of the mostly unknown late-eighteenth-century poet and teacher Catherine Upton, including The Siege of Gibraltar (1781), an epistolary prose...
The Oceanides, Edited by Judith Pascoe
The Oceanides | 1831 to 1832
This edition situates the poem sequence within Jewsbury's life and career, including a prose account of her journey to India, memoirs, & poems inspired by...
The Griffin (1820) and Other Works | 1819
This edition showcases the poetry of Thomas D’Arcy Morris (1792-1835), a significant figure in the Bombay literary scene of the early nineteenth century. It identifies and attributes Morris’s works,...
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci, Edited by Neil Fraistat and Melissa Jo Sites
On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
Includes dialogic commentary; critical essays by Jerome J. McGann, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Grant F. Scott; images; bibliography; & notes.
The Political House that Jack Built, Edited by Kyle Grimes
The Political House that Jack Built | 1818
Includes diplomatic transcription of the title page and Hone's verse text, as well as the poem "The Clerical Magistrate". Also offers original illustrations...

Correspondence

Pause
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six
Based on extensive new archival research, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six: 1819 to 1821 brings together for the first time Southey’s surviving letters from a period of...
The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle, Edited By Tim Fulford and Lynda Pratt
The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle
This edition builds upon new scholarship on Romantic rural poet Robert Bloomfield, collecting all his extant letters plus a selection of those written to him...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 4: 1810-1815
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four | 1809 to 1814
Part Four, covering the period 1810-1815, was a crucial one for Southey’s career and reputation. It has, however, never before been fully documented or fully understood. By 1810...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Two
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Two | 1797 to 1802
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected...
A Letter to the Women of England, Edited by Adriana Craciun, Anna Irmen Close, Megan Musgrave, and Orianne Smith
Letter to the Women of England | 1798
Includes introduction, transcriptions, reviews, letters to and from Robinson, selected poems, bibliography, & notes.
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 3
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Three | 1803 to 1808
Part Three is the first-ever collected edition of the surviving letters written by Southey between 1804 and 1809. The letters published here begin with Southey writing to his brother...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Edited By Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 1: 1791-1797, Edited By Lynda Pratt
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part One | 1790 to 1796
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five | 1815 to 1817
Based on extensive new archival research, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Five: 1816-1818 publishes for the first time Southey’s surviving letters from a period of...
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn, Edited by Grant Scott and Sue Brown
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
A collection of 46 letters published in full for the first time, shedding new light on the life and character of Charles Brown and the most important...
A Rediscovered Letter by John Keats, Edited by Dearing Lewis
A John Keats Letter Rediscovered
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, & notes.
Explore all genres

Historical Authors

Below is selection of historical authors represented at RC. More information on documents authored by a person can be found by clicking a person's name. To view all historical authors represented on the site, go here.

Pause
Walter Savage Landor
Landor, Walter Savage
Thomas Love Peacock, by Henry Wallis
Peacock, Thomas Love
Walter Scott
Scott, Walter
Dorothy Wordsworth
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Blake, William
Cowper, William
Hunt, Leigh
Jewsbury, Maria Jane
John Milton
Milton, John
Letitia Elizabeth Landon by Maclise
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Mary Darby Robinson
Robinson, Mary Darby
Nicholas Mason
Mason, Nicholas A.
Thomas Gray
Gray, Thomas
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien
Robert Southey
Southey, Robert
Hugh Blair
Blair, Hugh
James Macpherson
Macpherson, James
George Cruikshank
Cruikshank, George
Explore all

Contemporary Authors

Below is selection of contemporary authors represented at RC. More information on documents authored by a person can be found by clicking a person's name. To view all contemporary authors represented on the site, go here.

Liu, Alan

Viscomi, Joseph

Fraistat, Neil

Carlson, Julia S.

Explore all

Editors

Below is selection of editors at RC. More information on resources by a person can be found by clicking a person's name. To view all contemporary authors represented on the site, go here.

Borushko, Matthew C.

Fulford, Tim

Taylor, Barbara

Stiklus, Bob

Jager, Colin

Explore all

Selected Images from the RC Gallery

Pause
Explore the Gallery

Latest from Reviews & Receptions

The Latest reviews and posts to the "Romanticism and Popular Culture" database.

Frances Botkin, Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 (Rutgers UP, 2017). 240 pp. (Paperback, $31.95 ISBN 9780813587387; Cloth, $120.00, ISBN 9780813587394; Kindle, 28.95, ISBN 9780813595733; EPUB, 31.95, ISBN 9780813587400; PDF, $31.95.ISBN 9780813587417).

 

Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (U of NC P, 2000). 480 pp. (paperback, $47.50, ISBN 9780807848296; ebook $29.99, ISBN 9780807876121).

 A collaborative review of Frances Botkin’s Thieving Three-Fingered Jack and Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Reviewed by Gabriella I. Johnson & Gregory Pierrot

Matthew Bevis, Wordsworth’s Fun (University of Chicago Press, 2019). 303 pp. (Hdbk., $82.50, ISBN: 9780226652054)

 Matthew Bevis, Wordsworth’s Fun. Reviewed by Jeremy Noel-Tod

Joseph Drury. Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain (Oxford University Press, 2018.) 272 pp., 8 B&W illus. (Hdbk., $90.00; ISBN 9780198792383.)

 Joseph Drury. Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain. Reviewed by Deven M. Parker

Andrew O. Winckles. Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: 'Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader' (Liverpool University Press, 2010). 288 pp. (Hdbk., $120, ISBN 9781789620184).

 Andrew O. Winckles. Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: 'Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader'. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bishop.
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Selected Audio

  1. Bill Berkson reads "So we'll go no more a roving" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
  2. Robert Thomas reads "On first looking into Chapman's Homer" by John Keats
  3. Matt O'Donnell reads "When we Two parted" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
  4. Tom Thompson reads "A Song about Myself" by John Keats
  5. Jeffrey Thomson reads "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

RC Sections

Praxis Series
Digital scholarly essays organized thematically by volume: from the gothic to discourses of empire, and many others.
Electronic Editions
Scholar-edited editions of literary works and other Romantic-era productions: from novels and poetry to letters and travel writing.
Pedagogies
Resources for teachers of Romantic Studies, including essays on teaching Romanticism in the Pedagogies Commons Series.
Scholarly Resources
Chronologies, Bibliographies, Concordances, and other resources to aide in the study and teaching of Romanticism
Reviews & Receptions
Includes short reviews of recent work, live BookChats, listicles, and an evolving compendium of appearances of Romanticism in popular culture.
RC Data
Learn more about Romantic Circles's experiments with data both big and small.
The Shelley-Godwin Archive
The Shelley-Godwin Archive provides the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.