The latest issue of Romantic Texutalities focuses on ‘Romantic Novels 1817 and 1818’ and is guest edited by Susan Civale and Claire Sheridan This issue will comprise eight essays, an update of the English Novel, 1800–1829 and 1830–1836 bibliographies, and nine book reviews. Continue reading
The latest issue of Romantic Texutalities focuses on ‘The Minerva Press and the Literary Marketplace’ and is guest edited by Elizabeth Neiman and Christina Morin. This issue will comprise 13 essays, an update of the English Novel, 1800–1829 and 1830–1836 bibliographies, and 15 book reviews. Continue reading
Celebrating its twentieth year, Romantic Texutalities, Issue 22 (Spring 2017) features a Special Issue dedicated to ‘Four Nations Fiction by Women, 1789–1830’, guest edited by Elizabeth Edwards, and comprising eight articles. Alongside these essays are a report on the Popular Romanticism website and eleven book reviews. Continue reading
‘La Chambre Grise’ and ‘La Chambre Noire’ are companion stories that close Fantasmagoriana. Interestingly, these stories do not appear together in Gespensterbuch and not at all in Utterson’s Tales of the Dead. In her advertisement, … Continue reading
by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg The sixth story in Fantasmagoriana, ‘Le Revenant’ / ‘Der Geist des Verstorbenen,’ is the first story not to be translated in Tales of the Dead. The ghost motifs in this story … Continue reading
by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg The fifth story in both Gespensterbuch and Fantasmagoriana (vol 2), ‘L’Heure fatale’ / ‘The Fated Hour,’ is the second story in Tales of the Dead. It appears to have been more … Continue reading
The fourth story, ‘La Morte Fiancée’ / ‘The Death-Bride,’ opens the second volumes of Gespensterbuch and Fantasmagoriana. Along with ‘Les Portraits du Famille’ / ‘The Family Portraits,’ Mary Shelley recalls the reading of ‘La Morte … Continue reading
The third story in Fantasmagoriana is a personal favourite. While the influence of ‘La Tête de Mort’ on Shelley’s Frankenstein is minimal at best, there are several intertextual tidbits related to this story that are … Continue reading
As noted in my previous blogs on Frankenstein and Fantasmagoriana, the first story read by the Byron-Shelley circle on that stormy night in June 1816, ‘L’Amour muet’, was not as influential and well-known as the … Continue reading
by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg Happy New Year Everyone! My introductory blog ‘last year’ – actually only a few weeks ago – provided a brief overview of Fantasmagoriana (1812) the text that inspired the famous ghost-storytelling contest at … Continue reading
by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg Greetings Fellow Romanticists and Print Culturists, I am excited about my first blog-posting for Romantic Textualities. Thanks to the editors for the opportunity and their assistance. Like many of us, ever … Continue reading
Introduction Online Identities, the Information Highway, Information Overload are just a sample of terms coined in the twentieth century in order to embody the effects of the communication processes of digital media. [1] For many … Continue reading
The aim of Ashgate’s Nineteenth Century Series ‘is to reflect, develop and extend the great burgeoning interest in the nineteenth century […] as a locus for our understanding not only of the past but of … Continue reading
