Felicia Hemans : Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

Dedication List of Illustrations Foreword: Now Our Hemans; M.B.Ross List of Contributors Introduction: Why Hemans Now; N.Sweet & J.Melnyk PART I: READINGS: THE WOMEN'S VOICES, THE POET'S CHOICES Impure Affections: Felicia Heman's Elegiac Poetry and Contaminated Grief; M.T.Williamson The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis; G.F.Scott The Triumph of Voice in Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary; J.M.Anderson Hemans's Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet; J.Melnyk PART II: RECEPTION: THE (RE)MAKING OF THE WOMAN POET 'Certainly not a Female Pen': Felicia Hemans's Early Public Reception; S.C.Behrendt The Search for a Space: A Note on Felicia Hemans and the Royal Society of Literature; B.D.Taylor Felicia Hemans and the Shifting Field of Romanticism; C.Edgar 'The Spells of Home': Hemans, 'Heimat' and the Cult of the Dead Poetess in Nineteenth-Century Germany; F.Lenckos PART III: CONTEXTS: CULTURES OF ROMANCE, HISTORIES OF CULTURE Hemans and the Romance of Byron; S.Wolfson Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage : Hemans, Rushdie, and 'the Moor's Last Sigh'; N.Sweet Death and the Matron: Felicia Hemans, Romantic Death, and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State; G.Kelly Natural and National Monuments, Felicia Hemans's The Image in Lava : A Note; I.Armstrong Index