Current Editions
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Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature, 1760-1830. Edited
by Robert W. Rix.
This edition collects twenty-one British writers from c. 1760–1830, a period which is today associated with the rise of Romantic sensibilities. A number of literary works in Britain were inspired by Old Norse manuscripts, collections of Danish folklore or similar such texts from Scandinavia. This electronic edition is a selection of these by canonical authors (such as Thomas Gray, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Walter Scott, and Ann Radcliffe), as well as selections by lesser known writers, whose texts have not previously been available to modern readers. This edition provides the contextual framework and necessary commentary to explain the ways in which these writers repurpose Norse material.
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The Collected Letters of Robert Southey,
Parts One and Two. Edited by Lynda Pratt and Ian Packer.
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected edition makes available for the first time all his surviving letters, freshly edited, annotated and introduced. Part One covers 1791-1797, turbulent years which saw the forging of Southey's career and reputation, his involvement in radical politics, and the beginning of his friendships with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Part Two covers 1798-1803, a turbulent and crucial time for Southey. It encompasses his public and private responses to Lyrical Ballads (1798); his reaction to the rise of Napoleon and the continuing conflict between Britain and revolutionary France; his second and final visit to Portugal and the resultant hardening of his anti-Catholicism; his unhappy stint as a secretary to the Irish Chancellor Isaac Corry, and his emotional bludgeoning by the deaths in relentless succession between 1801-1803 of three Margarets, his cousin, mother and first child.
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Archived Editions
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William Dodd. Thoughts in Prison. Edited
by Charles Rzepka.
Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the publication of William Dodd's long poem Thoughts in Prison (1777). Written while he was awaiting execution for forgery in his Newgate prison cell, the poem is unique among prison writings and in the history of English literature: none of the many reflections, stories, essays, ballads, and broadside "Confessions" originating—or purporting to have originated—in a jail cell over the last few hundred years can begin to match it in length, in the irony of its author's notoriety, or in the completeness of its erasure from history after a meteoric career in print that began to wane only at the turn of the nineteenth century.
An appendix presents manuscript versions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower, my Prison," by way of suggesting a reliance, at least metaphorically, on this major work of prison literature by Romantic writers.
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The Letters of Robert Bloomfield. Edited
by Tim Fulford and Lynda Pratt; Associate Editor John Goodridge.
This edition builds upon new scholarship on Romantic rural poet Robert
Bloomfield, collecting all his extant letters plus a selection of those written
to him by literary correspondents, with the hope that by presenting a properly
edited and annotated collected letters we might enable the poet to be a
significant figure for all those studying early nineteenth-century literature
and culture.
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Frankenstein. Edited by Stuart
Curran.
This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen
years, provides the texts of both the 1818 and 1831 editions, as well as
copious annotations that emphasize the novel's strong inter- and intra-textual
connections.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey. The Fall of Robespierre (1794). Edited by Daniel E. White,
with Sarah Copland and Stephen Osadetz.
This edition provides an annotated text of the play, supplemented by a
wide range of literary and journalistic materials that offer contexts in which
to understand the work's place in relation to the authors' politics, the
transmission and reception of news, and the role of Robespierre within English
political culture.
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New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
(1821-42). Edited by Grant F. Scott and Sue Brown
A collection of 46 letters published in full for the first time, shedding
new light on the life and character of Charles Brown and the most important
friendship in the Keats Circle, as well as Keats’s complex legacy to
his friends.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The Brides' Tragedy
(1822). Edited by David Baulch.
This edition presents both the full text and relevant contexts of the
play, including a comprehensive introduction and extensive notes by the editor,
two of the sources of the play, and four contemporary reviews.
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Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature
(1803). Edited by Martin Priestman.
The first fully annotated edition of Erasmus Darwin's influential
scientific poem and its copious original notes; including the first publication,
from draft, of Darwin's hitherto unknown poetic history of technology, The
Progress of Society.
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Poets on Poets
. Edited by Tilar Mazzeo with Doug Guerra and Matt O'Donnell.
An audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and
read by practicing poets from around the world. Updated quarterly. Includes some
audio commentary, textual transcriptions of the poems read, as well as a link to
subscribe to an RSS feed for podcasting.
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Benjamin Disraeli.
Alroy
(1871). Edited by Sheila A. Spector.
This early novel, first published in 1833, represents
Disraeli in "romantic mode." This version features the novel, an introduction,
annotations, reprints of Disraeli's sources, contemporary reviews, &
modern criticism, as well as a detailed bibliography of Disraeli's life and
works, criticism, & other contextual materials.
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An electronic edition of Bennett's collection of 350 poems
highlighting the complex attitudes to the wars of the period. Includes Bennett's
original introduction & a new bibliography of poems not included in the
original edition.
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Robert Southey.
Wat Tyler, A Dramatic Poem
(1817). Edited by Matt Hill.
An electronic edition of Robert Southey's poem based on
the peasants' rebellion of 1381. This edition provides contextual background on
the poem's embattled publication and partisan reception.
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans. The Sceptic: A
Hemans-Byron Dialogue(1820). Edited by Nanora Sweet and Barbara
Taylor.
This edition places Hemans in direct contention with Byron
over belief in an afterlife. Includes letters, reviews, poems & critical
essays that probe the work for its engagements with Byron, allusions to topics
of the day, & negotiation of gender.
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Maria Jane Jewsbury.
The Oceanides
(1832-3). Edited by Judith Pascoe.
This edition situates the poem sequence within Jewsbury's
life and career, including a prose account of her journey to India, memoirs,
& poems inspired by her work. Allows readers to view original poems as
they first appeared in The Athenaeum.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge & William Wordsworth. Lyrical
Ballads (1798-1805). Edited by Ron Tetreault and Bruce Graver.
This electronic edition makes available all 4 versions of
Lyrical Ballads in the form of transcriptions edited from original
printed copies, accompanied by images of each page. Enables active comparison of
texts through Dynamic Collation.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Wanderings of Cain (1828,
1834). Edited by N. Santilli
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Publishes, for the first time, all the fragments of this
unfinished poem in one edition. Includes a composite reading text, piecing
together all the fragments, & a parallel reading text of both Canto II
and verse fragment.
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Edward Ellerker Williams. Sporting Sketches
during a Short Stay in Hindustane (1814). Edited by Tilar
Mazzeo.
Includes MS Shelley adds.e.21 and MS Shelley adds.c.12,
together comprising Williams's complete travel journal to India, here published
in its entirety for the first time. Also included is a critical introduction.
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Anna Lætitia Aikin [later Barbauld].
Poems (1773). Edited by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri.
Includes transcriptions, photo reproductions of the
original volume, critical apparatus, & a "Poem Web," featuring
detailed commentary
& contextual
materials for "On
a Lady's Writing."
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William Hone.
The Political House
that Jack Built
(1820). Edited by
Kyle Grimes.
Includes diplomatic transcription of the title page and
Hone's verse text, as well as the poem "The Clerical Magistrate". Also offers
original illustrations by George Cruikshank, a William Hone chronology,
& annotated bibliography.
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John Keats.
A Rediscovered
Letter by John Keats
(1818). Edited by
Dearing Lewis.
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, &
notes.
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L.E.L.'s 'Verses' and The Keepsake for 1829.
Edited by Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen.
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcriptions,
facsimile pages, biography, bibliography, & commentary.
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Richard Brinsley Peake Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823). Edited by
Stephen C. Behrendt.
Includes an introduction, full text of the play, images of
the 1823 cast, a bibliography and filmography, the first reviews of
Presumption, & a biography of Richard Brinsley Peake.
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Mary Darby Robinson.
A Letter to the
Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
(1799). Edited by Adriana Craciun, Anne Irmen Close, Megan Musgrave,
& Orianne Smith.
Includes introduction, transcriptions, reviews, letters to
and from Robinson, selected poems, bibliography, & notes.
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Mary Shelley.
The Last Man (1826). Edited by Steven Jones.
Includes HTML, ASCII, and SGML versions, other works by
Mary Shelley, works and excerpts from works cited by Shelley, bibliography,
maps, images & sound files, critical essays, contemporary works on
plague, notes.
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Mary Shelley.
The Mortal
Immortal
(1833). Edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra.
Includes HTML and ASCII versions, related contemporary
literary works, critical bibliography, print history, images, writings on the
text, & notes.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Devil's
Walk
(1812). Edited by Neil Fraistat and Donald H. Reiman.
Includes HTML formatted texts, editors' introduction,
critically edited text, diplomatic transcription, photofacsimile, &
clear reading texts. Also includes collations, bibliography, and notes.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley.
On the
Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
(1819). Edited by Neil Fraistat and Melissa Jo Sites.
Includes dialogic commentary; critical essays by Jerome J.
McGann, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Grant F. Scott; images; bibliography; &
notes.
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