Romantic Circles
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Romantic Circles is an academic peer-reviewed website dedicated to the study of Romantic literature and culture, featuring online editions of many texts of the Romantic era, as well as essays devoted to Romantic literature, culture, and theory.
Romantic Circles is published by the University of Colorado, Boulder and supported, in part, by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the English Departments of Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Maryland.{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/ |title=Home - Romantic Circles |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
History
Romantic Circles was officially launched in November 1996 by general editors Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, Donald Reiman, and Carl Stahmer.
Sections
Of its core peer-reviewed content, Romantic Circles, as of March 2015, housed 38 critically edited electronic editions of literary works, 56 volumes of criticism in its Praxis Series, 5 volumes in its Romantic Pedagogy Commons series, 22 research resources in its Scholarly Resources section, and a section of 275 digitally curated images associated with the Romantic era in The Gallery.Numbers arrived at by counting items on the section landing pages.
The site is broken up into several main sections:
- Electronic Editions: A searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era. Each editionis peer-reviewed. The section is edited by Tilar Mazzeo.{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/ |title=Electronic Editions - Romantic Circles |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date=2008-06-18 |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
- Praxis Series ({{ISSN|1528-8129}}): Uses computer technologies to investigate critically the languages, cultures, histories, and theories of Romanticism.
- Romanticist scholarship. The section is edited by Orrin N.C. Wang.{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/ |title=Praxis Series - Romantic Circles |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date=2008-06-18 |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
- Scholarly Resources: Offers online research tools for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts. Includes Bibliographies, Indexes and Concordances, and other miscellaneous resources.{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/ |title=Scholarly Resources - Romantic Circles |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date=2008-06-18 |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
- Pedagogies: Includes a peer-reviewed journal Romantic Pedagogy Commons,{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/index.html |title=Pedagogies Commons - Pedagogies - Romantic Circles |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date=2008-06-18 |accessdate=2012-11-30}} a "Teaching Romanticism" blog (edited by Katherine Singer),{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/pedagogies_blog/ |title=Teaching Romanticism: An RC Pedagogies Blog |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-11-30}} as well as online syllabi, a MOO, and other teaching resources.{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/ |title=Pedagogies - Romantic Circles |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
- Reviews & Receptions: Offers reviews of key works of scholarship related to the Romantic period. Edited by Suzanne L. Barnett, Alex Gatten, Leonora Hanson, and Ross Wilson{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews-blog/?page_id=3 |title=Romantic Circles Reviews » About Romantic Circles Reviews |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date=2009-06-10 |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
- Romantic Circles Blog: Provides "News, notes, and announcements from the RC Community"{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/blog_rc/ |title=Romantic Circles Blog |publisher=Rc.umd.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
- The Gallery: A curated gallery of Romantic-era images.
Honours
- The site has been recognised by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as one of the best 21 sites on the Internet for education in the humanities.
- The United States Library of Congress has selected Romantic Circles for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials. Over time, the web archiving team will make Romantic Circles available to researchers both onsite at library facilities and though the library's public website.{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/ |title=Web Archiving (Library of Congress) |publisher=Loc.gov |date= |accessdate=2012-11-30}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/blog_rc/romantic-circles-selected-historic-collection-library-congress |title=Romantic Circles selected as "Historic Collection" by Library of Congress |publisher=Romantic.arhu.umd.edu |accessdate=2012-11-30}}
Current general editors
- Paul Youngquist and Orrin N.C. Wang.{{Cite web | url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/about/history.html | title=History of the Site}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.rc.umd.edu/}}
{{University of Maryland, College Park}}