Romanticism: The CD-ROM

Sample documents and graphics, reconfigured for this web site


Edited by David S. Miall and Duncan Wu

Separate edition: ISBN: 0631 199446. Edition with Anthology: ISBN: 0631 222693

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NB. Graphics are reproduced here at the same size as on the CD; as a result their size means they are likely to download slowly. Please note also that most hypertext links to other documents are necessarily omitted in these files.

M. T. Bourrit, A Relation of a Journey to the Glaciers in the Dutchy of Savoy (1775). Illustrations added.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Contents, Section 1 (from Texts)

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc (1817). Text of poem as it appears in the Anthology, supplemented with contemporary prints of Chamonix.

Gothic Fiction: Main screen. Contents page.

Frankenstein (1818), review by the Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818)

Thomas Clarkson, Evidence on the Slave-Trade (1788)

Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (1793): on the September Massacres (1792)

The Enquirer on Verse and Poetry, Monthly Magazine (July 1796)

Humphry Davy, A Discourse introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802)


Related links

Miall, David S. "The Resistance of Reading: Romantic Hypertext and Pedagogy." Romanticism On the Net 16 (November 1999). An essay on the design of the Romanticism CD and an example of its use in a course.

Romantic Poetry and Prose (1996-97), a course at the University of Alberta. The course cited in the above essay; includes more details of students' projects. Note that some of the links on the page are now broken.

Romanticism: The CD-ROM. A description of the software, including a complete listing of all the text and graphic files.

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Compiled by David S. Miall, February 2001