From this page I will periodically provide lists of internet sites with good information and references to give you background on British Romanticism and some of the topics we’ll be discussing in class. Please be aware that these are resource cites and not peer-reviewed sources.

Websites on British Romanticism

Romantic Circles: this is the best resource on the web for studies in Romanticism. It features new electronic editions of rare and hard-to-find Romantic works. It has its own peer-reviewed journal, Romantic Praxis, and book review section. It also features lots of other links to useful resources. Fully open access.

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net: Another good journal – it used to be strictly on Romantic subjects, recently added studies in the Victorian period (1830-1900). Fully peer-reviewed.

British Library: Discovering Literature – Romantics and Victorians: an excellent collection of photographs and articles on the British Library’s extensive holdings of 19th century books and print culture.

Slavery and Abolition

The Abolition Project: an excellent web-museum devoted to the history of trans-Atlantic abolition.

Romanticized Slavery, Enslaved Romanticism: a good introductory site from the University of Tennessee and Knoxville.

Slavery Poems – poetry for and against the slave trade: an online collection of abolitionist poetry, compiled and digitized by Brycchan Carey (Cambridge University)

William Blake

The Blake Archive is probably the most useful collection of Blake materials available online. Here you can see, examine, and compare individual pages from most of the extant copies of all of Blake’s own work and those commissioned by others. It is primarily an archive, though, and is not as engaging as some other sites.