Welcome to RAP

The Romantic Audience Project is a collaborative study authored by students enrolled in English 242, Spring 2003, taught by Mark Phillipson at Bowdoin College. In 2005, it spawned a sequel: RAP2.

For background information about RAP - including browser compatibility, project description, a demo of the site, and press coverage - please read about this website.

If you want to jump right in, here's advice on how to look around.

Project comments

My grading comments are now listed on the Project index

Project index

the Project index is complete.

Project index

I've created a Project index, listing keys to the projects.

More women in RAP

RAP now contains the following female author pages:

Charlotte Smith

Mary Robinson

Dorothy Wordsworth

Caroline Lamb

Felicia Hemans

L.E.L.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Additionally, RAP contains work by Helen Maria Williams (The Bastille, A Vision), Hannah More (The Sorrows of Yamba), and Mary Tighe (Psyche; or The Legend of Love).

Outside link: the most comprehensive index of texts by women romantics that I've run across is Women Romantic-Era Writers

Two final reserve reading articles online

Keats enters history: autopsy, Adonais, and the fame of Keats

and

Mary Robinson and the Literary Marketplace

Women romantics in RAP

So far, I've created author pages for Charlotte Smith and Felicia Hemans. Mary Robinson already existed, thanks to kmasters. Back when we were immersed in Byron, I also made a Caroline Lamb page. Individual works in RAP by these authors can, of course, are listed on these pages.

Also now in RAP: The Bastille, A Vision by Helen Maria Williams, and Psyche; or the Legend of Love by Mary Tighe.

Class snips

New snips off John Keats page

He (Don Juan, and not Wordsworth)

The Chambers of Human Life

Psyche; or The Legend of Love

Ode to Psyche

The Nightingale

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Keats springs into RAP

Actually, he was already here, thanks to jperez. But I've added texts, images, and links - all to be found on the John Keats page.

My comments to E2s are now posted.

I've also posted the lecture I read to you over the last two classes: 'And be again undone'- Displacement and Don Juan

Look who's crashed the party

Caroline Lamb, page-abuser, has her own page in RAP.

Project Assignment

The project assignment is now online here.

Next Monday's RAP posting assignment is in the usual place.