Felicia Hemans Reimagining Poetry in the

These thirteen original essays are the first to focus exclusively on the work, reception, and cultural significance of the 19th century British poet who explored the role of women in family and society. They are a substantial contribution to our understanding of this prominent and controversial poet and to current debates about romanticism, feminism, canon formation, and the relations between gender, culture, and poetry.

Nanora Sweet is Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Julie Melnyk is Associate Professor of English, Central Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri.

List of Illustrations

ix

Foreword: Now Our Hemans

x

Contributors

xxvii

Introduction: Why Hemans Now?

1

(18)

Nanora Sweet

Julie Melnyk

I Readings: The Woman's Voices, the Poet's Choices

Impure Affections: Felicia Heman's Elegiac Poetry and Contaminated Grief

19

(17)

Michael T. Williamson

The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis

36

(19)

Grant F. Scott

The Triumph of Voice in Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary

55

(19)

John M. Anderson

Hemans's Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet

74

(21)

Julie Melnyk

II Reception: The (Re)Making of the Woman Poet

`Certainly not a Female Pen': Felicia Heman's Early Public Reception

95

(20)

Stephen C. Behrendt

The Search for a Space: A Note on Felicia Hemans and the Royal Society of Literature

115

(9)

Barbara D. Taylor

Felicia Hemans and the Shifting Field of Romanticism

124

(11)

Chad Edgar

`The Spells of Home': Hemans, `Heimat' and the Cult of the Dead Poetess in Nineteenth-Century Germany

135

(20)

Frauke Lenckos

III Contexts: Cultures of Romance, Histories of Culture

Hemans and the Romance of Byron

155

(26)

Susan J. Wolfson

Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage: Hemans, Rushdie, and `the Moor's Last Sigh'

181

(15)

Nanora Sweet

Death and the Matron: Felicia Hemans, Romantic Death, and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State

196

(16)

Gary Kelly

Natural and National Monuments - Felicia Heman's `The Image in Lava': A Note

212

(19)

Isobel Armstrong

Index

231

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Felicia Hemans Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century

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