This volume attests to the continuing relevance of Mary Wollstonecraft to twenty-first century feminist thought. Making connections between Wollstonecraft's efforts to think within and beyond Enlightenment principles of liberal humanism and various significant issues and debates in contemporary culture from the impacts of social media to the impasses in theories (and practices) of social justice...
Ever since Paul de Man’s "Shelley Disfigured," we have come to see Percy Shelley’s final, unfinished poem, The Triumph of Life, as a symptom of the end of Romanticism and Romanticism as end. If or once things are over, why bother to re-visit the end? This is one of many questions Shelley’s poem compels its readers to ask, which is in turn to ask why we any longer need to re-visit the poem at this...
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Manfred: A Dramatic Poem (1817) and based on original talks given at an international symposium at New York University on April 21, 2017, this special Romantic Circles Praxis volume offers not only a collection of essays that reassesses Lord Byron’s drama from an array of angles...
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, originally published anonymously or pseudonymously in contemporary newspapers and periodicals. The central text is the long review / poem The Griffin, accompanied by some related earlier works by...

By the time that Samuel Glover published A Description of the Valley of Chamouni, in Savoy in 1819, Mont Blanc was well established as a place of great scientific importance and as a key attraction for tourists and travellers seeking the mountain sublime. This edition re-situates Glover’s Description in the context of eighteenth-century and...

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

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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...

Poetry

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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 Political House that Jack Built, Edited by Kyle Grimes
The Political House that Jack Built | 1819
Includes diplomatic transcription of the title page and Hone's verse text, as well as the poem "The Clerical Magistrate". Also offers original illustrations...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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."
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...

Correspondence

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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 Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 1: 1791-1797, Edited By Lynda Pratt
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part One |
1791 to 1797
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 Rediscovered Letter by John Keats, Edited by Dearing Lewis
A John Keats Letter Rediscovered
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, & notes.
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 4: 1810-1815
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four |
1810 to 1815
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 3
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Three |
1804 to 1809
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, Part Two
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Two |
1798 to 1803
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, 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...
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...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five |
1816 to 1818
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...
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...
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.
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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.

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Anna Barbauld
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Hugh Blair
Blair, Hugh
Samuel Carter Hall
Hall, Samuel Carter
Sarah Stickney Ellis
Ellis, Sarah Stickney
Percy Shelley
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth, William
Robert Browning
Browning, Robert
Jane Austen
Austen, Jane
James Macpherson
Macpherson, James
Daniel Defoe
Defoe, Daniel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Mary Darby Robinson
Robinson, Mary Darby
Robert Burns
Burns, Robert
Walter Savage Landor
Landor, Walter Savage
Thomas Love Peacock, by Henry Wallis
Peacock, Thomas Love
Madame de Staël
Staël, Germaine de
Copely by Gilbert Stuart
Copley, John Singleton
William Hone
Hone, William
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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.

Viscomi, Joseph

Levy, Michelle

Benchimol, Alex

Price, Kenneth M.

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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.

McLane, Maureen

Benis, Toby

Colligan, Colette

McAllister, Marie E.

Vincent, Patrick

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Selected Images from the RC Gallery

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Latest from Reviews & Receptions

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

Richard C. Sha, Imagination and Science in Romanticism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). 344 pp. (Hdbk., $59.95; ISBN 9781421425788).

 Richard C. Sha, Imagination and Science in Romanticism. Reviewed by Bysshe Inigo Coffey.
, "The Playlists: Rock and Romanticism" by James Rovira

Dahlia Porter, Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 314 pp., 13 b&w illus. (Hdbk., $99.00; ISBN 97811084189420).

 Dahlia Porter, Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism. Reviewed by Jeanne Britton.

Jonathan Sachs, The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2018). 246 pp. (Hdbk., $99.99; ISBN 9781108420310).

 Jonathan Sachs, The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism. Reviewed by Carmen Faye Mathes.

Manu Samriti Chander, Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century (Bucknell University Press, 2017). 125 pp. (Hdbk., $90; ISBN 0-8387-9781-0).

 Manu Samriti Chander, Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century. Reviewed by Nikki Hessell.

Selected Audio

  1. Elise Paschen reads "To Autumn" by John Keats
  2. Charles Bernstein reads "The Grey Monk" by William Blake
  3. Paula Bohince reads "The Lamb" by William Blake
  4. Ross Gay reads "The Proverbs of Hell" from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake
  5. Anne Waldman performs "An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty" (Accompanied by an excerpt from Haydn's "String Quartet in G Major")

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.