Literature of the Romantic Era

Notes for Instructors

This digital textbook of Romantic Era Writers offers three things:

• (for digital creators)
• First, templates are provided here so that you and your students can create your own digital textbook and/or contribute to this one. You can download this compressed folder, unzip it, and then look at the "ReadMe" instructions: email me* if you have any questions or needs.
• (for Romanticists)
• Second, it provides a kind of table of contents to scholarly content freely available — digitally, of course. All external sites are linked using this outlink icon and will open in a separate window, whereas internal linking among sections of the textbook is accomplished via words highlighted in blue that turn green (underlined) when you hover over them. Please email me if you would like to request / contribute changes.
• (for learning
  digital reading
  methods)
• Third, this textbook introduces students and instructors to digital tools and methods of analysis. Sometimes these tools are embedded in live windows: all live windows are marked with this broadcasting icon:

1. Build Your Own!

2. Links to some of the best scholarly digital editions and information available

• Rumsey Maps RPPA
• The Map Tab: This section introduces the most important historical map collection created by David Rumsey, as well as a new, exciting project for mapping Romantic Writers globally.
• Criticism Archive
• Anna Barbauld, Notable Works: Anna Barbauld's literary criticism has been carefully and comprehensively edited by Mary Waters, benefitting both students and scholars. Dr. Waters's Criticism Archive contains literary criticism by many Romantic-era women writers.
• Shelley- Godwin Archive
• Mary Shelley, Notable Works: Here we provide a table of contents to some of the best digital resources for Frankenstein: the best digital editions for scholarship and those better for text analysis, as well as a link to the manuscripts hosted by the Shelley Godwin Archive.
• Blake Archive
• William Blake, Notable Works: Students can compare the experience of reading Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience as they have appeared in mass print with the Blake Archive's high resolution illuminated manuscript images.

3. Examples of tools for digital editing and analysis:

• CloseReading
  Tool
• William Blake, Readings: The Close Reading Tool, exemplified by Blake's "London," is presented here, in this instance, complete with instructions and downloads. Here follow all the examples of poems coded / read closely by students:
  • Blake's "London"
  • Baillie's "Song"
  • Keats's "To Autumn"
• Voyant
• Mary Shelley, Digital Lab: Examples of using Voyant as well as instructions for using the tool are provided in relation to Frankenstein
  
  William Blake, Digital Lab: a live Voyant window, embedded in our textbook, for exploring Blake's "London"
• hypothes.is
• William Wordsworth, Digital Lab: Visible in the lab, "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" has been coded for use with hypothes.is, along with instructions for seeing those comments and / or adding comments

* Please DO reach out to me for help or questions: mandell@tamu.edu