Romantic Circles Teaching Editions welcomes proposals from qualified
scholars for innovative web-based editions. Proposals may be individual
or collaborative, and we particularly encourage faculty to consider
projects that will involved advanced graduate students in the
process of textual editing. In addition, our inaugural prospectus
details a number of teaching editions that we are presently seeking
to commission or for which individual editors are seeking collaborators.
Please contact Tilar Mazzeo
with proposals, offers of participation, or inquiries. Proposals
for editions should emphasize the teaching nature of the edition
and its relevance for classroom use.
The Poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth
As a step toward offering the complete poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth
on Romantic Circles, we propose an initial teaching edition
that offers pairing between Dorothy Wordsworth's poetry and
journals and the poems of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. We are seeking an edition in which the annotations
and pedagogical focus would emphasize intertextual connections
between poems, the biography of theWordsworth circle, and the
shared elements of landscape aesthetics, botany, and the picturesque
in these works. Central texts might include the pairing of Dorothy's
"Thoughts on my sick bed" with William's "Lines written a few
miles above Tintern Abbey" or selections from the Grasmere journals
placed in dialogue with "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and "Christabel."
We imagine an edition drawing upon Romantic visual culture as
a supplement to classroom use.
Reading Gothic Horror Stories
As a complement to the editions of Burger's Lenore and
Shelley's Frankenstein on Romantic Circles, we propose
a teaching edition that draws upon Romantic print culture to
offer a range of contemporary horror stories for classroom use.
We are particularly interested in an edition that places the
German Phantasmorgia stories used by the Shelley/Byron circle
in 1816 and works such as Lewis's Tales of Terror in
the context of literary Romanticism. An edition of Byron's "Manfred"
would be particularly desirable.
Romanticism and Slavery
As a complement to the works of Mary Prince, presently in progress
for Romantic Circles, we propose a teaching edition that collects
poems and other contemporary materials related to abolition
and slavery. We imagine an interdisciplinary and transcontinental
approach to the subject, drawing upon the legal, economic, and
political contexts for works such as Wordsworth's "Toussaint"
sonnet and the writings by women and radicals in the Bristol
circles.
Romanticism and Eco-Criticism
As a complement to the volume on teaching approaches to Romanticism
and Eco-Criticism presently in progress for Romantic Pedagogies,
we propose a classroom edition that collects works that articulate
Romanticism's complex relationship to the "natural" world. We
are particularly interested in an edition that presents familiar
poems such as "Ode to the West Wind," "To Autumn," or "Mont
Blanc" in the context of ecology and eco-criticism. An edition
gathering poems on the Aeolian harp and supplemented with appropriate
images and recordings would also be welcome additions to the
Romantic Pedagogy site.
