Academic Journals: Someone asked about the important journals that publish on British Romanticism. Here's a list of the main academic journals focusing specifically on British Romanticism:

• The Byron Journal

• Charles Lamb Bulletin

• European Romantic Review

• Gothic Studies

• John Clare Society Newsletter

• Keats-Shelley Journal

• Nineteenth Century Studies

• Persuasions: Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America

• Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism

• Romanticism on the Net: An Electronic Journal Devoted to Romantic Studies

• Studies in Romanticism

• Women's Writing

• The Wordsworth Circle

Here are some of the mainstream academic journals that occasionally publish articles (sometimes quite important ones) on British Romanticism:

• Eighteenth-Century Fiction

• English Literary History

• Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History

• Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature

• Nineteenth-Century Literature

• South Atlantic Quarterly

• Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

• Studies in the Novel

Here is an online list of basic secondary materials developed by Adriana Craciun at University of London a few years ago.

Romantic Bibliography (Adriana Craciun)

Presentation Schedules

Notes on Wordsworth's Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty

Table of Contents for Wordsworth Reading (5/5)

Notes on the Abolition Debate

Notes on Hobsbawm and Emsley "War"

The Missing Pages from Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro"

Notes on the Rights of Woman Debate

Notes on the War 1793-1797

Notes on the Rights of Man Debate and Background to the French Revolution

Description

Up until 1914, whenever a Briton spoke of the “Great War” he or she meant the nearly uninterrupted twenty-two years of conflict between Britain and France. While the impact of the French Revolution on British literature and culture has been studied at length, the impact of this first modern war—modern in terms of weapons, tactics, scope and devastation—has only recently attracted the attention of scholars of literature and culture.

This relative lack of interest in wartime Britain is surprising when one considers the prominence of the war—its images, its seductions, its savagery—in virtually every aspect of British life during the two decade period generally considered the core of British Romanticism. It is the war that produces the beggars, drifters, discharged soldiers, widows and orphans that crowd Wordsworth’s poems. It is the war that encourages Walter Scott to collect the ballads and songs of the “borders” to celebrate the valor of warrior Scots. It is the war that provides Byron with the gruesome background against which he constructs his larger-than-life self. It is the war that propels Shelley, Blake, Barbauld and others into dangerous opposition to the idea of war.

In this course we will read a wide-range of texts published between 1793 and 1815 by significant writers of the time, such as Burke, Paine, Smith, Barbauld, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Austen, Byron and Shelley. We will also look at less traditional works such as popular ballads, periodical literature, and journalistic accounts, as well as recent historical scholarship on Britain and the war.

Because this is a seminar class rather than a formal lecture course, active and informed contribution to class discussion is expected from all students.

Reading List

The following texts are required for this class:

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. (0192802631)

Bennett, Betty T. Ed. British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815. Romantic Circles (online). University of Maryland, 2005. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/warpoetry/>

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848. New York: Vintage, 1996. (0679772537)

Robinson, Mary. Letter to the Women of England and The Natural Daughter. Ontario, Canada: Broadview, 2003. (1551112361)

Scott, Walter. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. University Press of the Pacific, 2001. (0898753821)

Wolfson, Manning, eds. The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A. Second Edition. New York: Longman. (0321105796)

Wordsworth, William. Wordsworth: The Major Works. New York: Oxford, 2000. (0192840444)

The following text is recommended for this class

Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging a Nation, 1707-1837. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1992. (0300059256)