Description |
xxix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword: Now Our Hemans--Marlon Ross Introduction: Why Hemans Now--Nanora Sweet & Julie Melnyk Part I: Readings: The Woman's Voices, the Poet's Choices Impure Affections: Felicia Heman's Elegiac Poetry and Contaminated Grief--Michael T. Williamson The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis--Grant F. Scott The Triumph of Voice in Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary John M. Anderson Hemans's Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet--Julie Melnyk Part II: Reception: The (Re)Making of the Woman Poet Foreword--Marlon Ross 'Certainly not a Female Pen': Felicia Hemans's Early Public Reception--Stephen C. Behrendt The Search for a Space: A Note on Felicia Hemans and the Royal Society of Literature--Barbara D. Taylor Felicia Hemans and the Shifting Field of Romanticism--Chad Edgar 'The Spells of Home': Hemans, 'Heimat' and the Cult of the Dead Poetess in Nineteenth-Century Germany--Frauke Lenckos Part III: Contexts: Cultures of Romance, Histories of Culture Hemans and the Romance of Byron--Susan Wolfson Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage : Hemans, Rushdie, and 'the Moor's Last Sigh'--Nanora Sweet Death and the Matron: Felicia Hemans, Romantic Death, and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State--Gary Kelly Natural and National Monuments--Felicia Hemans's 'The Image in Lava': a Note--Isobel Armstrong -- Foreword: Now Our Hemans--Marlon Ross Introduction: Why Hemans Now--Nanora Sweet & Julie Melnyk Part I: Readings: The Woman's Voices, the Poet's Choices Impure Affections: Felicia Heman's Elegiac Poetry and Contaminated Grief--Michael T. Williamson The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis--Grant F. Scott The Triumph of Voice in Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary John M. Anderson Hemans's Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet--Julie Melnyk Part II: Reception: The (Re)Making of the Woman Poet Foreword--Marlon Ross 'Certainly not a Female Pen': Felicia Hemans's Early Public Reception--Stephen C. Behrendt The Search for a Space: A Note on Felicia Hemans and the Royal Society of Literature--Barbara D. Taylor Felicia Hemans and the Shifting Field of Romanticism--Chad Edgar 'The Spells of Home': Hemans, 'Heimat' and the Cult of the Dead Poetess in Nineteenth-Century Germany--Frauke Lenckos Part III: Contexts: Cultures of Romance, Histories of Culture Hemans and the Romance of Byron--Susan Wolfson Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage : Hemans, Rushdie, and 'the Moor's Last Sigh'--Nanora Sweet Death and the Matron: Felicia Hemans, Romantic Death, and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State--Gary Kelly Natural and National Monuments--Felicia Hemans's 'The Image in Lava': a Note--Isobel Armstrong |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Author |
Melnyk, Julie.
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Sweet, Nanora, 1942-
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LC no. |
00048348 |
ISBN |
0333801091 (cloth) |
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