Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Introduction: Why Hemans Now?....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Impure Affections: Felicia Hemans’s Elegiac Poetry and Contaminated Grief....Pages 19-35
The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis....Pages 36-54
The Triumph of Voice in Felicia Hemans’s The Forest Sanctuary....Pages 55-73
Hemans’s Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet....Pages 74-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
‘Certainly not a Female Pen’: Felicia Hemans’s Early Public Reception....Pages 95-114
The Search for a Space: A Note on Felicia Hemans and the Royal Society of Literature....Pages 115-123
Felicia Hemans and the Shifting Field of Romanticism....Pages 124-134
‘The Spells of Home’: Hemans, ‘Heimat’ and the Cult of the Dead Poetess in Nineteenth-Century Germany....Pages 135-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Hemans and the Romance of Byron....Pages 155-180
Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage: Hemans, Rushdie, and ‘the Moor’s Last Sigh’....Pages 181-195
Death and the Matron: Felicia Hemans, Romantic Death, and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State....Pages 196-211
Natural and National Monuments — Felicia Hemans’s ‘The Image in Lava’: A Note....Pages 212-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-242