''Romantic Circles'' is an academic

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

website dedicated to the study of Romantic literature and culture, featuring online editions of many texts of the

Romantic era Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

, as well as essays devoted to

Romantic literature Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

, culture, and theory. ''Romantic Circles'' is published by the

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and supported, in part, by the

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(MITH), and the English Departments of

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and the University of Maryland.

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

content, ''Romantic Circles,'' as of March 2015, housed 38 critically edited electronic editions of literary works, 56 volumes of

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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. 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. * Praxis Series (): 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. * Scholarly Resources: Offers online research tools for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts. Includes

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, Indexes and Concordances, and other miscellaneous resources. * Pedagogies: Includes a peer-reviewed journal ''Romantic Pedagogy Commons'', a "Teaching Romanticism" blog (edited by Katherine Singer), as well as online

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, a MOO, and other teaching resources. * 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 * Romantic Circles Blog: Provides "News, notes, and announcements from the RC Community" * The Gallery: A curated gallery of Romantic-era images.

Honours

* The site has been recognised by the

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(NEH) as one of the best 21 sites on the Internet for education in the humanities. * The

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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.

History

Sections

Honours

Current general editors

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