Reframing “Harmony”: Humans as Functional Components in British Romantic Pastoral Ecosystems
Issue #82 (Spring 2024)
Black Studies & Romanticism (Guest Editor: Kate Singer)
Articles
Introduction to the “Black Studies & Romanticism” Special Issue
The Woman of Colour: A Black Studies & Romanticism Cluster
Introduction: Imperial Intimacies
Distance and Intimacy: Reading The Woman of Colour (1808) with Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies (2019)
Violent Intimacies: Women and White Supremacy in Imperial Intimacies and The Woman of Colour
Olivia’s Kingdoms: Corresponding with Carby’s Imperial Intimacies in The Woman of Colour
Reading for Race and Romance in Imperial Intimacies and The Woman of Colour
Plenaries
Plenary Collaboration #1
Citation, Appropriation, and Abolition
Plenary Collaboration #2
Black Studies In and Around Romanticism
Issue #80-81 (Spring-Fall 2023)
Materialising Romanticism (Guest Editors: Catriona Seth and Nicola J. Watson)
Introduction
Bodies
On Abbotsford
Paper
On Dove Cottage
Air
Stone
On Newstead Abbey
Water
Wood
On Chawton House
Things on the Move
Museum
Loss
Afterword: Object-Lessons in a Virtual Museum
Envoi: “Fragments of a History in a Dream,” Six Poems
Issue #79 (Fall 2022)
Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms (Guest Editors: Anna Pilz and Penny Fielding)
Introduction: The Coastal Turn in Romantic Studies
Fragments of Romance
J. M. W. Turner, Science, and the Bass Rock: A Coastal Knowledge Ecology
“Moral Electricity:” William Daniell’s Voyage Round Great Britain and Early Topographical Representations of the Isle of Skye and the West Highlands
Watery Romanticism: Walking and Sailing West with Keats
A Tale of Two (Stuffed) Fish: Coastal Encounters in the Scientific Writings of Sir John Richardson
The Caithness Mermaid, Female Testimony, and the Production of Coastal Knowledge
John Galt and the Horizons of the Firth of Clyde
Issue #77-78 (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)
Articles
Perspectives on Slavery: The “Description of the Brooks Slave Ship” and the African Girl of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
“Modish manners” and “decent vice”: Adultery in Byron’s The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn
“A Coal-Black Flower of Hell!”: The Influence of Robert Southey’s “The Origin of the Rose” on Robert Browning’s “The Heretic’s Tragedy”
India and Britain: Romantic-Era Interactions | curated by Julia S. Carlson
Nakshi Kantha: Embroidered Quilts and Narratives of Social Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Poetry as Resistance: The Bengal Famine of 1770, Bangla Verses, and John Scott’s “Serim; or the Artificial Famine: An East-Indian Eclogue”
Romantic Cemetery: Kolkata’s South Park Street Cemetery and Its Romantic Connections
Digital Review
Review of Radical Translations, Editors: Sanja Perovic, Erica Joy Mannucci, and Rosa Mucignat
Issue #76 (Spring 2021)
Romantic Futurities (Guest-Editors: Colette Davies and Amanda Blake Davis)
Articles
Introduction to “Romantic Futurities”
“Albert’s soul looked forth from the organs of Madeline”: Anticipating Transness in William Godwin Jr.’s Transfusion (1835)
Fibres, Globules, Cells: William Blake and the Biological Individual
“[L]ife among the dead”: Translation and Shelley’s “On a Future State”
Envisioning History: Helen Maria Williams’ Peru and Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head
Foils and Diamonds: Using Material Culture, Reviews, and Prefaces to reappraise the Minerva Press
The South Seas Onstage
Afterword. Romantic Futurities: Onwards!
Issue #74-75 (Spring-Fall 2020)
Romanticism, Interrupted
Presentation
Romantic Studies cannot, and should not, go on as before. Along with the cessation of face-to-face instruction, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the cancellation of conferences and disruption of the usual paths to publication. Anti-racist demonstrations in America and around the world sparked by the killing of George Floyd have also interrupted “business as usual” by prompting urgent and necessary action to address and overhaul the inequities that undergird the status quo. If the protests can be deemed an interruption, it is one that we embrace. Therefore, in 2020 Romanticism on the Net is adopting a new, more flexible approach to scholarly publication: one that aims to amplify critical voices and facilitate conversations limited by circumstances both novel and more longstanding.
Articles
Black Women and Female Abolitionists in Print
Romantic Medicine in the Time of COVID
Citizen, Negative Capability, and the Poetics of Doubt and Discomfiture
1816 and 2020: The Years Without Summers
“Britain Now Your Voices Join”: The Legacy of Peterloo in Song
“To steel the heart against itself”: The Influence of Byron on Emily Brontë
“Rending the veil of space and time asunder”: Percy Shelley’s Poetics of Event(s) in Ode to Liberty
Research Interrupted: A Reflection on Digitizing Sarah Sophia Banks’s Collections and Access to Ephemeral Materials
Digital Review
Review of Adam Matthew’s Romanticism: Life, Literature, and Landscape
Issue #72-73 (Spring-Fall 2019)
Articles
Shelley’s Quest for Love: Queering Epipsychidion
John Clare Cluster | curated by Chris Bundock
Toward a Poetics of Disappearance: The Vanishing Commons in Clare’s “The Lament of Swordy Well”
The Butter Bump, a Magpie, John Clare
Nature’s “every day disabille”: John Clare, shattered vision, and the everyday poetics of noon
Digital Review
British Museum’s Online Collection of Political and Personal Caricatures
Issue #71 (Fall 2018)
Articles
“The Penance of Life”: The Testimonial Paradigm in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Sensibility, Melancholia, and Subjectivity in Mary Robinson’s Sappho and Phaon
Ann Yearsley, Earl Goodwin, and the Politics of Romantic Discontent
The Religious and Political Revisions of The Prelude
Towards a Reading of Wordsworth’s “Now ye meet in the cave”
Issue #70 (Spring 2018)
Recollecting the Nineteenth-Century Museum (Guest-editor: Sophie Thomas)
Articles
Introduction — A Tour, a Text, a Body, a Building, a Model: Some (Fore-) words for the Nineteenth-Century Museum
Rome in London: Richard Du Bourg, Cork Modelling, and the Virtual Grand Tour
William Paley, William Buckland and the Oxford University Museum
Monkey Business: The Victorian Natural History Museum, Evolution, and the Medieval Manuscript
‘A Regiment of Skeletons and an Army of Bottles’: Reading the Hunterian Museum in Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Popular Culture
Digital Review
Romantic London: A Research Project Exploring Life and Culture in London in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Edited by Matthew Sangster
Issue #68-69 (Spring-Fall 2017)
Robert Southey (Guest-editors: Tim Fulford and Matthew Sangster)
Articles
Introduction – Southeyan Correspondences
Robert Southey, Politics, and the Year 1817
Poetic Industry and Abominable Superstition: Southey on Lope de Vega
“Et in Utopia ego”: Sir Thomas More and “Montesinos,” a Southey Mystery “Solved”
“Furnace-smoke … wrapt him round”: Industrial Hinduism and Global Empire in The Curse of Kehama and Sir Thomas More
Prosaic Poetry and Pneumatic Craving in Southey’s Curse of Kehama
“Mindful of the hour of conquest”: Welsh Patriotism in Southey’s 1798 Morning Post Poems
Settling at Keswick: Affective Bioregionalism in Southey Country
Southey Versus London: Proto-Romantic Disaffection and Dehumanisation in the British Metropolis
Digital Review
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. General Editors: Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford, and Ian Packer
Issue #66-67 (Spring-Fall 2016)
The Two Darwins (Guest-editors: Martin Priestman and Louise Lee)
Articles
Introduction – Evolution and Literature: The Two Darwins
Questions of inheritance: Erasmus and Charles Darwin
The Fertile Darwins: Epigenesis, Organicism, and the Problem of Inheritance
Charles Darwin’s The Life of Erasmus Darwin
Epic Poetry and the Origins of Evolutionary Theory
The Other Darwin’s Plots: Evolution as Literature in Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Butler and George Bernard Shaw
“The very air is a vital essence”: Pneumaticism at the Poles
Charles Darwin’s “Scientific Wit”: Incongruity, Species Fixity & The Nonsense of Looking
Issue #65 (2014-2015)
Articles
The Appeal of Panpsychism in Victorian Britain
William Blake and the Napoleon Factor: Rethinking Empire and the Laocoön Separate Plate
“As an Englishwoman, As a Writer”: The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, Early Nineteenth-Century Authorship, and the Reception of Frances Burney’s The Wanderer
The “sick imagination” of Godwin’s Fleetwood
Reviews
Haewon Hwang. London’s Underground Spaces. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780748676071. Price: US$120/£70
Anna Kornbluh. Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780823254972. Price: US$45
Teresa Michals. Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781107048546. Price: US$95/£60
Albert D. Pionke. The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals: Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. ISBN: 9781409470465. Price: US$104.95/£60
Rebecca Mead. My Life in Middlemarch. New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. ISBN: 9780307984760. Price: US$25
Jan-Melissa Schramm. Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978110721266. Price: US$99/£55
Ciaran Brady. James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199668038. Price: US$65/£40
Karen Dieleman. Religious Imaginaries: The Liturgical and Poetic Practices of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780821420171. Price: US$59.95/£40
Jane Jordan and Andrew King, eds. Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2013. ISBN: 9871409405894. Price: US$104/£60
Julia Thomas. Shakespeare’s Shrine: The Bard’s Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780812244236. Price: US$34.95/£23
Daniel Tyler, ed. Dickens’s Style. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781107028432. Price: US $85.50
David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas and Elizabeth J. Donaldson, eds. The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2012. ISBN: 9780814292976. Price: US$49.95
Christine Huguet and Simon J. James, eds. George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent. Farnham, UK, and Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2013. ISBN: 9781409466581. Price: US$109.95/£60
Issue #64 (October 2013)
The Andrew Lang Effect: Network, Discipline, Method (Guest-editors: Nathan Hensley and Molly Clark Hillard)
What is A Network? (And Who is Andrew Lang?)
Hidden Meaning: Andrew Lang, H. Rider Haggard, Sigmund Freud, and Interpretation
Trysting Genres: Andrew Lang’s Fairy Tale Methodologies
Andrew Lang’s “Literary Plagiarism”: Reading Material and the Material of Literature
Networking Magic: Andrew Lang and the Science of Self-Interest
Lang’s Survivals
MLA Cluster “Romantic Realism/Victorian Romance” | guest-edited by Elaine Freedgood and Maureen N. McLane