Dante Gabriel Rosetti & Ghost Stories

I have always been drawn to the Pre-Rafaelites such as Rosetti, William Morris of the Arts & Crafts movement and John Ruskin.  For this week's assignment I suggest this website: The Rosetti Archive

Taken from the home page:

The Complete Writings and Pictures of

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A Hypermedia Archive

The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain. In Whistler's famous comment, “He was a king”.

Completed in 2008 to the plan laid out in 1993, the Archive provides students and scholars with access to all of DGR's pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual corpus of materials, most drawn from the period when DGR's work first appeared and established its reputation (approximately 1848-1920), but some stretching back to the 14th-century sources of his Italian translations. All documents are encoded for structured search and analysis. The Rossetti Archive aims to include high-quality digital images of every surviving documentary state of DGR's works: all the manuscripts, proofs, and original editions, as well as the drawings, paintings, and designs of various kinds, including his collaborative photographic and craft works. These primary materials are transacted with a substantial body of editorial commentary, notes, and glosses.

As McGann was instrumental in the Rosetti Archive, I thought it might help if I also searched for another sort of hypermedia project on the Internet.

I found a site that does audios of ghost stories:  Short Ghost and Horror Collection.  I also found what could have been a great site for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".  It had three videos, but the files were corrupt so I couldn't view them.

Diane Culpin 10 November 2016