Web Resources

Here are a few places to start:

• The Voice of the Shuttle

  (The mother-site connection for literary studies on the WWW)

• The Romantic Chronology

  (A chronological listing of Romantic-era writers, publications, and events with links to on-line texts and information)

• Women Romantic Writers Page

  (Links to information on and texts by Romantic-era women writers compiled by Adriana Craciun at Loyola University, Chicago)

Here are a few other sites, archives, and pages of particular interest:

• Romantic Circles

  (A multi-purpose site including texts, features, bibliography, links, and critical exchange on Byron, the Shelleys, and their contemporaries)

• Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument)

  (An excellent introduction to questions of canon formation in the Romantic era as contextualized by recent scholarship, produced by Laura Mandell.)

• Romanticism on the Net

  (A well-maintained on-line journal linked not only to an extensive backlog of its own articles, but to other journals and conferences as well.)

• Romantic Movements

  (A site dedicated to tracking the various geographies of Romantic era writers, with an impressively expansive "search by author" catalog.)

• Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read

  (A bibliography of the canonical Romantics' reading of their Gothic contemporaries, with links to related sites )

• The Blake Archive

  (Various "illuminated" texts by Blake, scrupulously edited and presented)

• The Bluestocking Archive

  (The "Bluestocking" group and other women writers, compiled by Elizabeth Fay at U Mass-Boston)

• Austen Archive

  (A Jane Austen site at UT Austin)

• A Romantic Natural History

  (A lavish site at the intersection between British Romanticism and natural history developed by Ash Nichols at Dickinson College)

• "Electronic Resources for Nineteenth-Century Studies"

  (A critical guide to several important sites by Ash Nichols)

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