Mary, the Osier-Peeler by Mary Morgan [image of woman peeling osiers]

"Throughout my teaching experiences, especially in seminars that have covered the life and works of the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and other writers of the age, reading The Last Man at the end has consistently provided a stimulating and memorable culmination. This is because these pages are filled with familiar material, even if one has not read the novel before. But asking my students to...

What does it feel like to be (or not to be) attached to a country or community, to have (or not to have) membership or citizenship, in ways that one cannot control? This volume will turn to Romantic poetics to consider how public feelings operate and circulate through the language of poetry. How does poetry mediate the politics and sociality of feeling? How can poetry register not just a...

A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition

Forthcoming 2022

Mary, the Osier-Peeler by Mary Morgan [image of woman peeling osiers]

This electronic edition makes the text of Mary Morgan's Mary, the Osier-Peeler available for the first time in over 200 years from the single known copy in the world. As an electronic edition in Romantic Circles, the poem is machine-readable, enabling access not only to those without physical access, but also to those with sight disabilities in the spirit of its twentieth-century...

For the past several years Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons has published special volumes that speak to specific issues within romanticist pedagogy, such as “Romanticism and Technology,” “Teaching Global Romanticism,” or “Teaching the Romantic with the Contemporary.” For this 2-part volume, assembled during the COVID 19 crisis, we purposely stepped back and focused more broadly on essays that...

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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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...
Frankenstein, Edited by Stuart Curran
Frankenstein | 1818
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 Last Man, Edited by Steven E. Jones
The Last Man | 1826
Includes HTML, ASCII, and SGML versions, other works by Mary Shelley, works and excerpts from works cited by Shelley, bibliography, maps, images...
The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra
"The Mortal Immortal" | 1833
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 | 1781
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...
Fables Ancient and Modern, by Edward Baldwin, Esq. | 1805
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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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-...
Thoughts in Prison, Edited by Charles J. Rzepka
Thoughts in Prison | 1777
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 Oceanides, Edited by Judith Pascoe
The Oceanides | 1832 to 1833
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 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...
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 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...
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...
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces | 1781
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...
Wat Tyler, a Dramatic Poem by Robert Southey Electronic Edition Edited by Matt Hill
Wat Tyler | 1817
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 Banks of Wye by Robert Bloomfield, Edited by Tim Fulford
The Banks of Wye | 1811
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...
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 | 1793 to 1815
An electronic edition of Bennett's collection of 350 poems highlighting the complex attitudes to the wars of the period. Includes Bennett's original...
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Lake District
A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition Forthcoming 2022
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...
Poems 1773, Edited by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri
Poems | 1773
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 Temple of Nature, Edited by Martin Priestman
The Temple of Nature | 1803
The first fully annotated edition of Erasmus Darwin's influential scientific poem and its copious original notes; including the first publication, from draft...
Lyrical Ballads, Edited by Ron Tetrault and Bruce Graver
Lyrical Ballads | 1798
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...
The Griffin (1820) and Other Works | 1820
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,...
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 | 1829
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcriptions, facsimile pages, biography, bibliography, & commentary.
Verses Transcribed for H.T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin
Verses Transcribed for H.T. | 1805
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 Wanderings of Cain, Edited by N. Santilli
"Wanderings of Cain" | 1828
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...

Correspondence

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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 | 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...
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 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...
Anna Letitia Barbauld Letters to Lydia Rickards, 1798–1815
Anna Letitia Barbauld, whose collected works are in progress from Oxford University Press, was eminent as a poet, a path-breaking writer for children, a political writer during the years of the...
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...
A Rediscovered Letter by John Keats, Edited by Dearing Lewis
A John Keats Letter Rediscovered
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, & notes.
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...
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 | 1799
Includes introduction, transcriptions, reviews, letters to and from Robinson, selected poems, bibliography, & notes.
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 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...
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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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George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
George Canning
Canning, George
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Ann Radcliffe
Radcliffe, Ann
Walter Savage Landor
Landor, Walter Savage
Robert Southey
Southey, Robert
Portrait of Mary Tighe (1772-1810). Frontispiece from her Psyche, with Other Poems. 5th ed. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816.
Tighe, Mary
Sarah Stickney Ellis
Ellis, Sarah Stickney
Madame de Staël
Staël, Germaine de
Anna Barbauld
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
William Godwin
Godwin, William
Dorothy Wordsworth
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Edward Ellerker Williams
Williams, Edward Ellerker
Matthew Lewis
Lewis, Matthew
William Gifford
Gifford, William
Robert Burns
Burns, Robert
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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.

Brewer, William D.

Newman, Steven

Lundeen, Kathleen

Elam, Helen Regueiro

Mathes, Carmen Faye

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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.

Hogle, Jerrold E.

Galperin, William

Brookshire, David

Koenig-Woodyard, Chris

Baulch, David

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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.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Fred Moten, Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being). (Duke UP, 2018). 336 pp.; (Paperback, 27.95; ISBN 978-0-8223-7058-1)

Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c. 1770-1830. (Cambridge UP, 2018). 282 pp; (Paperback, 31.99, ISBN: 9781108468756)

 Beyond Slavery, Knowledge of Freedom: Bakary Diaby and Deanna Koretsky review Stolen Life and Beyond Slavery and Abolition

Chris Murray, China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793–1938. (Oxford University Press, 2020). 265 pp., 8 b&w illus. (Hdbk., $85.00; ISBN 9780198767015).

Emily Sun, On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China. (Fordham University Press, 2021). 167 pp. (Hdbk., $105.00; ISBN 9780823294787).
 

 Chris Murray's China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome & Emily Sun's On the Horizon of World Literature. Reviewed by Jennifer L. Hargrave

Bysshe Inigo Coffey, Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song (Liverpool University Press, 2021). xxi + 220 pp.; frontispiece + 11 b&w illus. (Hdbk., £90.00; ISBN 9781800855380).

 Bysshe Inigo Coffey, Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song. Reviewed by Michael Neth

Diana Pérez Edelman. Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine. Series eds. Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins, and Jessica Howell. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2021. Pp. xii + 180. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-73647-7.

 Diana Pérez Edelman, Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel. Reviewed by Rebecca Nesvet

Selected Audio

  1. Elise Paschen reads "To Autumn" by John Keats
  2. Rachel Blau DuPlessis reads "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802" by William Wordsworth
  3. Jeffrey Thomson reads "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  4. Seth Michelson reads "A Little BOY Lost" by William Blake
  5. Finding Romantic Commonplaces: An Interview with Jerome Christensen

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.