19th-Century British Poetry and Prose

Assorted Internet Resources for Study



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

The English Victorian Period 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

Mandell has also posted a brief interactive, descriptive list of websites for the study of Romanticism

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

You will find an interesting and often useful set of links to help you with the study of Romantic writing generally, and with individual authors in particular, at

The Romantic Poetry Site

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

The Regency Fashion Page

There is another way into this material, this one organized chronologically:

Regency Style Year by Year

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

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

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

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 Sickly Taper

British Sensational Fiction (includes Gothic, mystery, detective, science fiction)

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

Directory of World Museums and Virtual Libraries

Directory of Virtual Online Museums

Directory of the Virtual Library: Humanities Area(s)

Directory of World Library Servers

The British Library, London: home page

Public Record Office, United Kingdom: home page

EARL: Genealogical Resources for United Kingdom and Ireland

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