Resources

The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) is a digital library of 17th-century English Broadside Ballads, a project of the English Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project archives ballads in multiple accessible digital formats.

The Bluestockings archive assumes a deep relation between the intellectual and social movement of the Bluestockings, the culture and Cult of Sensibility and High Romanticism. It is an archive of texts relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues.

The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitalized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.

The Walter Scott Digital Archive is an Edinburgh University Library online resource created in the Centre for Research Collections. It is designed around our extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material.

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. It is the collaborative product of an ever-expanding community of editors, contributors, and users around the world, overseen by a distinguished Advisory Board. Currently, Romantic Circles offers approximately 700 thousand pages each year to users in over 190 countries around the world.

Discovering Literature brings to life the social, political and cultural context in which key works of literature were written. Explore literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. Discover 1,400 collection items, 171 articles, 25 films, 36 teachers’ notes and more.

Created in conjunction with the 2017 relaunch of Romanticism on the Net (RoN), NeuRoN functions as a new nerve center for digital research on British Romanticism, offering an up-to-date catalog of web-based resources. NeuRoN describes and links to online archives, databases and editions that are at once reliable for scholarly use and relevant to British literature and culture of the “Romantic Century” (1750-1850).

ERA’s online research project, Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition (RÊVE) was launched in summer 2017. The virtual exhibition is designed to address both an academic and a general audience as an interdisciplinary project showcasing and sharing Romantic texts, objects, and places through collaborations between academic researchers, museums, galleries and other cultural groupings.

Where Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 – 1832) once lived with his painter and friend Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein during his famous Italian journey, a unique museum has been established: the Casa di Goethe. Visit the permanent exhibition that is well worth seeing, discover Goethe’s versatility and make a foray into the 18th century.

Discover the ‘Great House’ referred to in Jane Austen’s letters, now restored. Relax in the peace and tranquillity of the gardens, and find inspiration in the lives and works of our women writers.

Situated at the foot of the Spanish Steps, a few steps away from Piazza di Spagna, the Keats-Shelley House is a museum dedicated to the British Romantic poets, who were spellbound by the Eternal City.

Founded in 1903, we maintain and support the Keats-Shelley House at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome, where the English poet John Keats died in 1821. As part of our ongoing commitment to poetry lovers, we publish the scholarly Keats-Shelley Review and run the annual Keats-Shelley and Young Romantic Writing Prizes to find the most promising poets and essayists from around the world.

As well as Dove Cottage and the other historic buildings at Wordsworth Grasmere, they look after an important collection of works by Wordsworth and the other writers and artists of the period. At the heart of this collection are the manuscripts that Wordsworth’s descendants gave to the Wordsworth Trust in 1935 so that they could remain here, where they were largely written and inspired.

The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) is the UK’s leading national organisation for promoting the study of Romanticism and the history and culture of the period from which it emerged.

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a registered charity, was founded in 1971 to promote the study of the eighteenth century, not only as it was experienced in Britain but throughout the world. The Society strives to be as fully multi- and inter-disciplinary as possible.

A pan-European organization bringing together individual researchers, scholarly associations and heritage institutions studying Romantic literature and culture.

The Jane Austen Society of North America is a non-profit organization staffed by volunteers and dedicated to the enjoyment and appreciation of Jane Austen and her writing.

The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) was founded at the University of Western Ontario in 1991 by a group of faculty members and students. NASSR was established to provide a forum for the discussion of a wide variety of theoretical approaches to Romantic works of disciplines.

The Byron Society celebrates the life and works of Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), a poet, traveller and revolutionary. Based in London, but hosting events around the UK and abroad, the Byron Society brings together all those interested in the famous Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose controversial works and astonishing life have entranced readers for more than 200 years.

The Society is a European federation of national higher educational associations for the study of English. The Society endeavours to reflect the cultural and geographical diversity of Europe in its institutions. The aim of the Society is to advance the education of the public by promoting the European study and understanding of English languages, literatures in English and cultures of English-speaking people.

The Friends of Coleridge, founded in 1986 by David Miall and Rosemary Cawthray, exists to foster interest in the life and works of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle, and to support Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset, through co-operation with the National Trust.

The Keats-Shelley Association of America came into existence as a belated offshoot from an Anglo-American philanthropic consortium that in 1903 purchased the house in Rome in which John Keats died.

A.I.A. (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) was established with the main objective of promoting Anglistics studies in Italy, supporting and coordinating scientific research in this field and facilitating contacts between Italian scholars and scholars from English-speaking countries; A.I.A. also aims to promote and increase, including through its own initiatives, publishing activities in the field of Anglistics.

Jane Austen Society of Italy (JASIT) is an Italian Cultural Association, active throughout the country, which promotes in Italy the knowledge and study of Jane Austen, her life, work and everything related to it, through any activity useful to achieve this purpose, in the name of shared cultural enrichment.

Romantic Circles Praxis (ISSN: 1528-8129) is a series of peer-reviewed critical volumes devoted to the field of Romanticism and its theoretical underpinnings. Closer in form to a scholarly book of essays than a critical journal, each volume in Romantic Circles Praxis Series (RCPS) explores a particular subject, figure, or theoretical approach, such as the gothic, contemporary culture, discourses of empire, and many others.

Romanticism on the Net (RoN) is an international, open access journal devoted to British Romantic literature. The journal was founded by Michael E. Sinatra in February 1996.

The BARS Review is the review journal of the British Association for Romantic Studies, providing timely and comprehensive coverage of new monographs, essay collections, editions and other works dealing with the literature, history and culture of the Romantic period, broadly conceived.