New Updating Effort in the Works!

Although research has proceeded unbroken over the past several years and much information has been posted on related sites (Revenant Archive, mOnocle-Lash, and the facebook avatar), this page has suffered from a certain amount of neglect in updates, aside from fleeting posts. This is an inevitable consequence of my having far, far, far greater goals than I have time. In the past several months however, I have become aware that more people are actually using the website than I had suspected, and have had the pleasure of interacting with them; as a result, I am making a relatively concerted effort to start updating it and making it generally more useful.

 

There's a lot of work to do, and little time (and I'm juggling 30 projects and a 60-hour workweek), so it will be gradual. I invite contributions from others, and welcome requests to move certain things to the top of my "to-do" list in order to help those of you using the site for your own projects, with the understanding that it may still not be immediate.

So far, I have updated the "Biographies" and "Translations" tabs to reflect what's been produced in relation to the project in the last year or two, and begun a major overhaul/expansion of the "Romanticist Community" section, which will probably be my main focus for the foreseeable future. I would like it to evolve into as complete as possible a database of the French Romanticist community between 1800 and 1850–it will be a looong project. I'm going to begin posting each page in the form of a blog post, which will be linked to from this page. This means there will be a string of Romanticist bios popping up over the coming months.

 

Again, this effort is largely in response to seeing how people are using this information in cool ways I would not have foreseen. Though I am a slow and erratic correspondent due to the volume of my work and email, please feel welcome both to contribute texts & links for the website and to let me know how you use the website and how it can help you. 

 

Cheers, and I hope the new updates indicated above are stimulating!