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Isn’t It Romantic?
Welcome to the research guide for the Romantic Movement. The resources in this guide have been selected to help you make this class a success.
On this page, find course information as well as a quick list of resources to get you started.
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Best Bets
The following can help you start your research.
See the Library Resources tab for more extensive lists of suggested materials.
Databases
- Gale Literature Resource Center
- Why search here? This is the most important database for the English program, and it is also useful for other fields in the humanities.
- What’s included? This database contains full-text author biographies, literary analyses, and reviews for a wide range of literature, conveniently sorted by resource type.
- Poetry & Short Story Reference Source
- Why search here? This database features full-text poems, short stories, and dramatic works, as well as biographies, critical essays, and eBooks.
- What’s included? The database contains 400,000 poems, over 50,000 short stories, over 4,000 dramatic works, and over 1,100 eBooks.
- Romanticism
Addresses various issues in Romantic literature studies.
- Studies in Romanticism
A scholarly literary quarterly focused on Romanticism and early nineteenth-century literature.
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism byCall Number: 820.9145 C144ISBN: 9780521333559Publication Date:
This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide, and reference work for students and readers of Romantic literature. … The eleven original essays which make up this volume make a significant contribution to our understanding of the period, providing readers with clear and coherent access to the historical roots, intellectual ferment, and cultural range of British Romanticism.
- English Romantic Poets byCall Number: 821.709 Ab83e2ISBN: 9780195019469Publication Date:
Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism—old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con.
English at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Arts & Sciences
The departments within the school offer a total of fifteen majors and twenty minors at the undergraduate level and a master of arts in American studies at the graduate level.
- English, Foreign Language & Humanities
The Department of English, Foreign Language & Humanities offers a broad range of courses leading to the bachelor of arts degree in English or English education. Students may also pursue a minor in English, writing, or Spanish.
- EnglishThe English Program at Northwestern Oklahoma State University offers a full range of courses in American, British, and world literature in addition to courses in creative writing, film studies, technical writing, and advanced composition in order to prepare students for academic and non-academic professional endeavors.