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This guide provides some useful starting places and strategies for doing research for this course. I'm happy to work with you on any aspect of your research, from developing a research question to finding, evaluating, and citing sources. Feel free to email me or make an appointment on my calendar. See my contact info on this page.

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SuperSearch can be a great place to cast a wide net, since it searches almost everything the library has (journal articles, books, films, newspaper articles, and more), in one easy-to-use interface. You can use the filters on the results screen to refine your search and improve your results.

Because SuperSearch contains so much content from so many different kinds of sources and academic disciplines, it can sometimes be hard to focus a search to get the most relevant results. At the same time, SuperSearch is also not comprehensive and can miss key sources. To search with more focus, precision, and depth, be sure to try the specialized databases recommended on this guide, or search the library catalog for books and films.

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Handbook of British Romanticism (e-book) by Ralf Haekel (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
Features discussions of key concepts such as history, class, gender, and science as well as thorough accounts of central literary genres and key literary texts in the light of recent theoretical developments.
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism by Stuart Curran (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Includes essays covering a variety of critical angles and approaches, as well as a chronology and guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (e-book)
Publication Date: 2008
Offers a comprehensive overview of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism; and the implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership.
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (e-book)
Publication Date: 2011
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America.
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (e-book)
Publication Date: 2011
Authoritative introductions to 29 important British and Irish poets, including Keats
The Cambridge Companion to Byron by Drummond Bone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
Publication Date: 2002
The Cambridge Companion to Keats (e-book)
Publication Date: 2001
Leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic, and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; and the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed.
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley by Esther Schor (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
Publication Date: 2007
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth
Publication Date: 2003
Essays by scholars covering a wide range of topics, including Wordsworth's poetic craft, Wordsworth as philosophic poet, his writing in relation to European Romanticism, Wordsworth as Nature poet, and gender and domesticity.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Over 1,100 entries on the history, theory, technique, and criticism of poetry, including coverage of more than 100 nations, regions, and languages.
Critical Terms for Literary Study (e-book)
Publication Date: 1995
28 essays provide an excellent introduction to literary study and theory

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographies of British figures worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies are research guides in a variety of subject areas. Combining features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource directs researchers to top scholarship across a wide variety of topics.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary research tool that allows you to search over 300 reference works simultaneously, including limiting to audio or visual materials.

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Romanticism on the Web

Romantic Circles
A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes an archive of Romantic-era texts, peer-reviewed literary criticism, bibliographies, images, and other material.
NeuRon: Digital Resources for Researching British Romanticism
A large collection of annotated links to online archives, databases, indexes, and editions.
The Keats Letter Project
"This web site publishes each of the letters on the 200th anniversary of the day Keats penned it, and each letter is accompanied by a critical commentary, a short dissertation, aiming to shed new light on the letters, reconceiving received ideas and offering reevaluations."
Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians
Digitized manuscripts, newspapers, diaries, letters, photographs, and maps from the British Library collections as well as accompanying articles and videos. Explore by author (e.g., Keats) or theme.
Harvard Keats Collection

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