From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828)
Year: 2001
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman in 1828 at the height of her long career. In the series, which includes nineteen poems about exemplary lives, Hemans explores what it means to be a woman, challenging traditional beliefs while at the same time reinforcing persistent stereotypes. Her work celebrates the lives, events, and imagined thoughts of unremembered women from different cultures and time periods whose deeds show nobility of spirit and inner strength. In her introduction, Paula Feldman examines how Hemans's poetry shaped and was shaped by nineteenth-century literary tastes, and she reconsiders the aesthetic value of Hemans's work and the current understanding of the nature of Romanticism. European Romantic ReviewHas excellent and detailed notes, a good introduction, a selection of contemporary illustrations, the complete text of her best-known work, Records of Woman, and a generous selection of additional poems. -- British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Provides a comprehensive sample of the work of this neglected poetic figure. -- Library Booknotes
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1596334486