I. Background and Overviews

A. Literature and Culture

• Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. Ref/PR 447 .0856 1999
• Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Ref/PR 85 .C29 1993

• Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Ref/DA 529 .E53 1992
• Handbook of English Romanticism. Ref/PR 457 .H26 1992

B. History, Arts, Ideas, Beliefs

• People's Chronology. Ref/D 11 .T83 1992
• Oxford Companion to British History. Ref/DA 34 .O93 1997

• Encyclopedia of World Art.
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Encyclopedia of Religion.
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

II. Primary Resources

A. Books: Use Sherlock, the on-line catalog

• Title. Find The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year, 1758- . See the volumes for 1805-1815.
• Author. Find books by "Romantic" writers Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Byron, and others.
• Subject. To find books published in the early 19th century on various subjects, search by subject and limit by date.

B. Articles in Journals and Newspapers

• Use an index to find articles in journals.
  • Poole's Plus. MiamiLINK / Sherlock (web version)
  • Index to Early American Periodicals. MiamiLINK / Sherlock (web version)
  • Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. CD-ROM: Ask at Consultation Desk in King Library.
    The Library has paper or microfilm copies of most of the periodicals indexed.
• Edinburgh Review, 1802- , and Quarterly Review, 1809- .
• The Times, 1788- [London, England].
  • Use the Times Index, a set of books shelved at AI 21 .T46, to find articles in newspaper.

III. Secondary Resources

A. Books: Use Sherlock, the on-line catalog, and search by subject, such as:

• Subject = Romanticism, Landscape Architecture or Gardening, etc.
• Subject = Literary authors and works

B. Articles in Scholarly Journals. Use one or more of these specialized indexes, as appropriate:

• MLA International Bibliography. MiamiLINK/Article Indexes
• Historical Abstracts. MiamiLINK/Article Indexes
• Philosopher's Index. MiamiLINK/Article Indexes
• Religion Index. MiamiLINK/Article Indexes

C. Specialized Bibliography

• Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography, 1979-[1998] Ref/ PN 603 .R64x

IV. Websites

A. Romanticism Websites

• Romantic Chronology
• Romantic Circles
• British Women Romantic Poets
• British & Irish Authors on the Web
• Romantics pages on Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
• Romanticism on the Net, an on-line journal.
• Romantics Unbound: A Hypertextual Learning Space

B. Search Engine

• Google