David Langston
English/Communications


HONR 353 / EN 370: The Romantic Movement

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WEB RESOURCES:

The Romantic Movement is widely considered to be the most powerful intellectual and artistic force in art, philosophy, and politics in the past two centuries. Therefore, topics on almost every imaginable subject will touch on some dimension of Romanticism, and, as you can guess, the possible number of relevant web sites runs into the hundreds and perhaps even thousands. The topics listed below are just those which are particularly apt for our course. I expect this list to develop and change, and when it becomes too large for one page, I will segment the topics.

Whenever you find additional sites which should be listed for other students in the class, please let me know, and I will add those links for the benefit of us all. By the same token let me know if there are sites which have disappeared in the ether void. In the meantime, here are a few obvious places to begin.

General Topics:

The Enlightenment, Neo-Classical Poetics, Rationalism, etc.

The French Revolution

Romanticism Sites

Romantic Poetics

Gothicism, the Greek Revival, Historicism...

The Nature of Nature

Science and Religion: defining human nature

Nationalism, Ethnicity, Social Being

Signs, Language, and the Self


Web Resources on Specific Authors:

Immanuel Kant:

Jane Austen:

William Blake:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

William Wordsworth:

Mary Shelley:

Sir Walter Scott:

John Keats:

Percy Bysshe Shelley:

J. M. W. Turner:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Margaret Fuller

Henry David Thoreau:

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

Herman Melville

Karl Marx:

Emily Dickinson

Friedrich Nietzsche:

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Wallace Stevens

Langston Hughes:

Allen Ginsberg:

John Ashbery:

John Berryman

Toni Morrison


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