Current Editions
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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 a copius annotations that emphasize the novel's strong inter- and intra-textual connections. |
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The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part One. Edited by Lynda Pratt.
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. |
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Archived Editions
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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.
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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