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Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Romanticism
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook15.html
Portal site, with quite a few links to primary sources.
Romantic Chronology
www.qub.ac.uk/english/shuttle/rom-chrono/chrono.htm
Extensive chronology with many links to online sources.
The Romantic Movement in British Literature
www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/engroman.htm
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works when online.
Romanticism
www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
Detailed article on the movement, from a 'Romanticism and Revolution' course from Washington State University.
Romanticism on the Net
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/
International refereed electronic journal devoted to Romantic studies.
Women Romantic-Era Writers
www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezacweb/wrew.htm
Long 'toilet roll' site with an extremely extensive list of primary and secondary sources and links.
General books on Romanticism
English Romanticism by Laura K Egendorf (Greenhaven Press, 2001: US edition only, available through online bookshops).
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British culture 1776-1832 by Iain McCalman et al. (Oxford University Press, 2001) £20.
Reference book that surveys the Romantic age through all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. This multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms — its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and literature — and as an historical epoch of revolutionary transformations that ushered in modern democratic and industrialised society.
Romanticism by David Blayney Brown ('Art and Ideas' series) (Phaidon Press, July 2001) £14.95.
The author takes a thematic approach to Romanticism, relating it to the concurrent, more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and the Gothic Revival, and discussing its relationship with the political and social developments of the era. He not only looks at how artists as diverse as Goya, Delacroix, Friedrich and Turner responded to landscapes or depicted historical events, but also examines artists such as David and Ingres who are not usually considered Romantics.
Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner (November 2001) £9.99.
Booker Prize-winning writer examines the works of Delacroix, Ingres, Gros and Zola among others, and argues that the Romantics in France made the heroism of modern life their creed and transferred their idealism to the domain of art.
Women and Romanticism
Romantic Women Poets: An anthology by Duncan Wu (Blackwell Anthologies, 1997) £16.99.
Comprehensive volume dedicated exclusively to female poets of the Romantic period. Contains complete and unabridged texts by assorted women writers, along with manuscript versions of poems by Susanna Blamire and Lady Caroline Lamb among others.
Romanticism and Gender by Anne K Mellor (Routledge, 1993) £17.99.
Looks at over 20 women writers of the Romantic era and explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition.
Women in Romanticism by Meena Alexander (Rowman & Littlefield, 1989: US edition only, available through online bookshops).
Looks at what it meant to write as a woman in the Romantic era and examines the work of three women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley.
Women Romantic Poets 1785-1832: An anthology by Jennifer Breen (Everyman, 1994) £5.99.
Alongside the famous names of Romanticism, many women — from intellectuals to dairymaids and cooks — published poetry. Poets such as Hannah Moore, Joanna Baillie and Elizabeth Bentley may not be household names, yet they depict nature alongside the domestic life they considered a fitting subject for poetry, finding an everyday subject for Romanticism's everyday language.
Women Romantics 1785-1832: Writing in prose by Jennifer Breen (Everyman, 1996) £5.99.
Including the writings of Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Moore and Dorothy Wordsworth, this anthology chronicles women's struggle for expression in the realm of men.