Wikipedia:Peer review/Dark romanticism/archive1

Dark romanticism

I'd greatly appreciate peer reviews on this article as a whole. I'm particularly interested having the "Characteristics" section re-organized so that comparison of Transcendentalism and dark romanticism is more clear. I've considered using bullets for the three major points of comparison, but they don't seem right. Thank you.

Stcircumstance 00:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Good article on first glance. Agree with the bullet points idea. That section, which I imagine is very difficult to write, needs more clarification. Could also do with a small summary  Done at the beginning of the Prominent examples section.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 00:21, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Review by Awadewit

• If you eventually want to go for FA, you will need to expand the lead. It should be about three paragraphs and summarize the article. WP:LEAD
• I think that you have to explain transcendentalism more so that the contrast is clearer. I would do this in the "Origin" section when you describe the rise of transcendentalism.
•  DoneSpawned in eighteenth-century England from ideas of the Romantic intellectual movement - This is difficult to substantiate. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto is often labeled the first gothic novel and it comes before the beginning of the Romantic movement (traditionally defined).
•  DoneYou might try to explain why "gothic fiction" is different from "dark romanticism."
• Rather than having separate sections on each author, I would use their stories, novels, poems, etc. to illustrate what dark romanticism is.
• I would also suggest that you read quite a bit more before expanding this article. Your sources seem a little thin. Using an introductory textbook and an encyclopedia is generally not the best way to go because these works simplify a topic. You should know much more than you include in the article. You should decide what to include in the article (which is actually a summary of the scholarly work on the topic). You should discover what the scholarly consensus is by reading many scholarly books and articles. Google scholar is a good place to start. The MLA database, if you have access to it, would be another good resource. Awadewit 23:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)