British Poetry of the Later Romantic Period
English 4/802
Fall 2011
Stephen C.
Behrendt
319 Andrews; 472-1806
office: 1230 - 200 TR
and by appointment
George Cruikshank, Victory at Peterloo, 1819
Selected Research and Study Resources
Selected websites for the study of Romanticism (Stephen Behrendt)
Studies in Romanticism at the University of Nebraska home page
Some good websites you can access directly from here:
The Romantic Chronology: a year-by-year chronolgy of history, culture, and everyday life.
The Regency Fashion Page: a multi-level website with everything from men's and women's clothing to literature and popular culture, from the 1790s to the 1820s.
English Culture, 1660-1830 (links relating to business, clubs, societies, periodicals customs, games, new plants, foods, and people of the period).
Here is a link to a wonderful website on the history of Britain during the age of George III (1760-1820).
And here is Jack Lynch's resource page for studies and scholarship in Romanticism, including calls for papers.
And Laura Mandell's resource page for on-line materials, including electronic texts.
And Adriana Craciun's Women Romantic-Era Writers page, with many good links.
Questions for exploring Authors' Relations to their Texts and their Audiences There are two sets of questions here. The first set will help you analyze the ways in which the authors may have thought about their texts and how they “work.” The second set will guide you as you think about the relations that texts in general suggest between themselves and their reading audiences — including ourselves.
Some Notes and Comments on the Reading Activity This is just what it says: a brief commentary on the dynamics of reading, with two intriguing comments from modern theorists on reading.