Enlightenment Neo-Classicism Romanticism Revolution and the Rise of the Novel
Contents
1. Literature
- Austen Texts
- Jane Austen’s Juvenilia
- Contemporary Literature
- The Northanger Canon
2. Non Fiction
3. Audio Plays
4. Image Bookmarking
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- From Old Books
- Georgian Image Bookmarking
1. Literature
Whist the adjective “Georgian” may be applied to architecture and furniture, in literary history the period is not at all unified. Usually it is held to divide into neo-classicism (roughly 1714-1750), sentimentalism (roughly 1750-1780), and romanticism (1780-1820). Such a schema, however, offers only a procrustean framework for thinking about the actual similarities and differences of a period which also sees the rise of the novel. “Georgian” is not therefore applied to literature of the eigheenth century, the term “Georgian poetry” referring to verse published during the reign of George V (1910-36).
1.1 Austen Texts
Lady Susan circa 1795 (posthumous)
Northanger Abbey 1798 (posthumous 1817)
The Watsons fragment circa 1803 (posthumous)
Sense and Sensibility 1811
Pride and Prejudice 1813
Mansfield Park 1814
Emma 1816
Persuasion 1817 (posthumous)
Sanditon fragment 1817 (posthumous)
Jane Austen’s Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796-1817
1.2 Jane Austen Juvenilia
Volume I 1787-1790
Frederic and Elfrida
Jack and Alice
Edgar and Emma: A Tale
Henry and Eliza: A Novel
The Adventures of Mr. Harley
Sir William Montague
Memoirs of Mr. Clifford: An Unfinished Tale
The Beautifull Cassandra
Amelia Webster
The Visit: A Comedy in Two Acts
The Mystery: An Unfinished Comedy
The Three Sisters
Detached Pieces
Ode to Pity
Volume II 1790-1792
The History of England
Love and Friendship
Lesley Castle: An Unfinished Novel in Letters
Collection of Letters
Scraps
Volume III 1791-1792
1.3 Contemporary Literature
Thomas Grey
Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1749
Oliver Goldsmith
George Crabbe
The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With his Letters and his Journal, and his Life
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus 1816
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci 1820
The Eve of St Agnes 1819
Fanny Burney
George Gordon (Lord) Byron
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 1812-1819
Manfred 1816-17
The Giour 1813
William Cowper
Poems and Hymns 1779 – 1800
Horace Walpole
John Polidori
The Vampyre 1819
Clara Reeve
The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story 1777 [Reprinted as The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story]
William Godwin
The Adventures of Caleb Williams 1794
Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk 1796
Charles Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer 1820
Samuel Taylor Colridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1797–1798
Poems, Letters and Critiques 1787 – 1834
William Blake
Writings, Illuminated Books and Illustrations 1788 – 1827
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Candide 1759
Zadig, or the Book of Fate 1747
John Cleland
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 1749
Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent 1800
1.4 The Northanger Canon
- The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe 1794
- The Italian – Ann Radcliffe 1796
- The Castle of Wolfenbach – Eliza Parsons 1793
- The Mysterious Warning – Eliza Parsons 1796
- Clermont: A Tale – Regina Maria Roche 1798
- The Midnight Bell: A German Story – Francis Lathom 1798
- The Necromancer: or, The Tale of the Black Forest by “Lawrence Flammenberg” (pseud. of Karl Friedrich Kahlert). Translated by “Peter Teuthold” 1794
- Horrid Mysteries: A Story From the German Of the Marquis Of Grosse – Peter Will 1796
- Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath 1798
2. Non-Fiction
Jane Austen’s Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796-1817
Casanova (Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt)
Histoire de ma vie jusqu’à l’an 1797 [Written in 1794, first edition 1822 in Germany. Originally published in English under the title The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt]
John Gibson Lockhart
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott 1836
James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson 1791
An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island 1768
Edmund Burke
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 1757
Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1790 Original Stories from Real Life 1788
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark 1796
Dorothy Wordsworth
Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland AD 1805 1874
William Gilpin
Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1792
Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views 1791
Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape 1792
Uvedale Price
Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful 1794
Richard Payne Knight
An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste 1805
3. Audio Plays
Lady Worsley’s Whim by Hallie Rubenhold 2008. Produced by BBC Radio 4 – Book at Bedtime. Rosamunde Pike reads from an abridged account.
4. Image Bookmarking
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- From Old Books
- Georgian Image Bookmarking
4.1 New York Public Library Digital Gallery
William Blake: Illustrated Books
The World on a Two-Inch Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen Writes to Her Sister
Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
Empire and Regency: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon
Libri Amicorum: Friendship and Autographs from the circle of Percy Byssche Shelley
Penny Plains and Two-pence Coloured: English Theatrical Portraits 1799-1847
500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection
4.2 From Old Books
The Works of Jane Austen
Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, municipal and Popular Antiquities
The Story of Some English Shires
Old English Country Cottages
4.3 Georgian Image Booking
Virtu: The Hamilton Neapolitan Connection
Noteworthy & Notorious
Portraiture
Archives: From the Collections of the NYPL
At Home & Abroad
The Intimate Portrait
