The Romantic Era Redefined

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PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The Romantic Era Redefined will bring academic research libraries a new, genre-redefining electronic collection of Romantic-era literature, including critical essays created exclusively for this project.

Alexander Street Press has partnered with London-based Pickering & Chatto Publishers, the preeminent publisher of critical editions in the humanities and social sciences, to create this collection of more than 200,000 pages of Romantic-era writings by both canonical and previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America.  Included will be poetry, prose, drama, letters, diaries, and manuscripts—along with political, philosophical, and sociological works.  

CONTENT

The release of the database will represent the first time that Pickering and Chatto’s highly acclaimed critical editions have been made available in electronic format, allowing scholars to examine the texts in new ways. Important texts that have been long overlooked will be rediscovered, and researchers will be able to trace new interrelationships among these works.  Selected titles from Pickering & Chatto’s Romanticism collection include Conduct Literature for Women, 1770-1830 (six volumes); Anti-Jacobin Novels (ten volumes); Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850 (eight volumes); Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets (three volumes); Parodies of the Romantic Age (five volumes); and Bluestocking Feminism (six volumes).
 

HOW WILL YOU USE IT?

Editorial selection and the creation of a thesaurus of index terms designed specifically for this project took place under the guidance of an advisory board of scholars of Romantic-era literature. All texts will be rekeyed for full-text searching. In addition, page images of the original texts will be made available whenever possible. Along with Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing, the result is a collection that will helps scholars and students to answer research questions such as:

·        How was verse satire employed in Britain between the mid 1780s and the mid 1830s?

·        Who were the Bluestocking women writers and how did they aim to improve the lives of  middle- and upper-class women during the eighteenth century?

·        What did the term "physician" mean among writers of scientific literature published between 1660 and 1834?

·        How did women writers employ the personal letter as a rhetorical device in Romantic era literature?

In addition to the primary texts themselves, the project will include fifty critical essays, written by notable scholars for The Romantic Era Redefined. The essays are substantial works in their own right, critical monographs that will contextualize the works for students and researchers and serve as a teaching tool for instructors.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

The Romantic Era Redefined from Alexander Street Press is available beginning in the second half of 2008, either through the one-time purchase of perpetual rights or via annual subscription. Prepublication discount rates are available for one-time purchases.  For more information about this and other Alexander Street collections, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.