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• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• An Outline of Romanticism in the West (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by John Claiborne Isbell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Romantic Circles Praxis Series (1997-) (partial serial archives)
• Romantic Poetics of Public Feeling (2021), ed. by Lily Gurton-Wachter and Tristram Wolff (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by Orrin N. C. Wang (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis (2008), ed. by Joel Faflak (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Gastronomies (2007), ed. by Denise Gigante (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Buddhism (2007), ed. by Mark Lussier (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Historicizing Romantic Sexuality (2006), ed. by Richard C. Sha (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Leon Chai (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2003), ed. by Lisa Malinowski Steinman (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age (1999) (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the Law (1999), ed. by Michael Steven Macovski (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Passions (1998), ed. by Elizabeth A. Fay (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Conspiracy (1997), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Libraries (2004), ed. by Ina Ferris (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Re-Reading Box Hill: Reading the Practice of Reading Everyday Life (2000), ed. by William H. Galperin (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Last Formalist: or, W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur (1997), by W. J. T. Mitchell, ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Thomas Weiskel (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom: Two Interviews (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang, contrib. by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Harold Bloom, Marc Redfield, and Laura Quinney (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Schelling and Romanticism (2000), ed. by David S. Ferris (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• The "Honourable Characteristic of Poetry": Two Hundred Years of Lyrical Ballads (1999), ed. by Marcy L. Tanter (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• The Book-Bills of Narcissus (third edition, 1895), by Richard Le Gallienne (Gutenberg text)
• Pesymizm, Romantyzm a Podstawy Chrześcijaństwa (2 volumes in Polish; Krakow: Drukarni "Czasu", 1915), by Marjan Zdziechowski
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Politische Romantik (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1919), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Politische Romantik (second edition, in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1925), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rousseau and Romanticism (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Irving Babbitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google

• Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by Joanna Page (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Mrs. Radcliffe: Her Relation Towards Romanticism; With an Appendix on the Novels Falsely Ascribed to Her (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926), by Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten (page images at delpher.nl)

• Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition (originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cynthia Chase (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• An Outline of Romanticism in the West (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by John Claiborne Isbell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Irena Grudzinska-Gross (HTML at UC Press)
• Racine et Shakespeare (in French, with English notes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1907), by Stendhal, ed. by Léon Delbos
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Roger Paulin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Novalis: Signs of Revolution (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by William Arctander O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der Deutschen Romantik (in German; Bern: A. Francke, 1920), by Walter Benjamin (page images in Germany)

• The Sundry Faces of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature (2020), ed. by Karen A. Weisman (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Latin American Afterlives (2020), ed. by Olivia Loksing Moy and Marco Ramírez Rojas (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Raymond Williams and Romanticism (2020), ed. by Jon P. Klancher and Jonathan Sachs (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Clyde de L. Ryals (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Evan Gottlieb (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Romanticism and Ecology (2001), ed. by James C. McKusick (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Keats in Popular Culture (2020), ed. by Brian R. Bates (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Materialist Critique of English Romantic Drama (Gainesville et al.: University Press of Florida, c1993), by Daniel P. Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010), by Tilottama Rajan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815 (online edition, with a new bibliography of additional poems; 2004), ed. by Betty T. Bennett and Orianne Smith (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), by Guinn Batten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by David H. Richter (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Tilottama Rajan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Laurie Langbauer (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• The Influence of Gothic Architecture Upon the Literature of the English Romantic Movement (Indiana University masters thesis, 1922), by Clara Van Nuys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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