Assorted Internet Resources for the Study of British Romanticism





The very best place to begin is with Prof. Alan Liu's monumental project, "The Voice of the Shuttle," which features an astonishing number of links to other sites, not just in Romanticism but throughout literary study - and also in other disciplines. You'll find materials for courses offered at other institutions, as well as a remarkable array of reference materials, from encyclopedias to map-making utilities and telephone directories. Have a look - you won't be disappointed.

Main home page for "The Voice of the Shuttle"

The English Studies page

The English Romanticism page


Another fascinating website is the Romanticism Chronology, coordinated on Liu's site by Prof. Laura Mandell of Ohio University. Here you can select any year within the Romantic period and follow a variety of links to historical, social, political and other events, as well as to works of art in all the media. It is a rich and thoroughly fascinating resource. Home page for The Romanticism Chronology


Among the many electronic journals is Romanticism on the Net; it contains articles and reviews, as well as links to other Romantics sites, to other journals, and to descriptions of professional conferences in Romantics studies.

Home page for Romanticism on the Net

From this same site, here is an excellent list of other Romantics-related websites.


Finally, a good, extensive interdisciplinary source for Romantic fashion and culture (with many sections on British culture 1660-1830):

The Regency Fashion Page


The very best place to begin searching any aspect of Victorian culture and society is The Victorian Web


Kathy Johnson (UNL Libraries) has put together a wonderful finding list for book reviews of works published in the Romantic period and later in the 19th century. This bibliography comes complete with shelf locators for the volumes in the coillection at UNL's Love Library, and also with "hot" links to on-line and other electronic versions of these materials. To get to this list, click here.


My own site is minimal at present, but evolving. In addition to selected course materials, there are links there to various aspects of the Corvey Project, which involves the magnificent collection of Romantic literary texts the UNL Libraries have acquired and the library's outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British periodicals (go to the "Projects" heading).

Home Page: Stephen C. Behrendt

I also maintain a site that I call Studies in Romanticism at the University of Nebraska, which is the site for various projects, including those relating to the Corvey Collection at the University of Nebraska Libraries.


Here are a number of other useful sites for information, research, and general browsing; most of these contain links to additional sites.

NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) home page

ICR (International Conference on Romanticism) home page.

A new, fully electronic on-line edition of British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815, ed Betty T. Bennett. A NEW edition, updated and expanded, with digital text by Orianne Smith. This is an absolutely indispensible resource. To access it, click here.

Jack Lynch's "Literary Resources" page for the Romantics

Michael Gamer's "Romantics Links"

Gary Harrison's Romantics Page

Home page for British Women Playwrights, c. 1800

Adriana Craciun's Women Writers of the Romantic Period

British Women Romantic Poets project at University of California, Davis; home page

The Blue Stocking Archive (esp. later 18th-century women writers and thinkers)

Archive of Visual Images of London

A major website and launch pad for everything relating to the Gothic: The Literary Gothic

Romantic Natural History: home page for interdisciplinary project to connect Romanticism and Natural History

Directory of World Museums and Virtual Libraries

Directory of Virtual Library Museums

Another Directory of Virtual Museums in various disciplines.

Directory of the above Virtual Library: the Humanities Area(s)

Directory of World Library Servers

The British Library, London: home page

The National Library of Ireland, Dublin: home page

The National Archives (including the Public Record Office), United Kingdom: home page