Felicia Hemans

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Hemans Now?

Chapter 2 Impure Affections: Felicia Hemans’s Elegiac Poetry and Contaminated Grief

Chapter 3 The Fragile Image: Felicia Hemans and Romantic Ekphrasis

Chapter 4 The Triumph of Voice in Felicia Hemans’s The Forest Sanctuary

Chapter 5 Hemans’s Later Poetry: Religion and the Vatic Poet

Chapter 6 ‘Certainly not a Female Pen’: Felicia Hemans’s Early Public Reception

Chapter 8 Felicia Hemans and the Shifting Field of Romanticism

Chapter 9 ‘The Spells of Home’: Hemans, ‘Heimat’ and the Cult of the Dead Poetess in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Chapter 10 Hemans and the Romance of Byron

Chapter 11 Gender and Modernity in The Abencerrage : Hemans, Rushdie, and ‘the Moor’s Last Sigh’

Chapter 12 Death and the Matron: Felicia Hemans, Romantic Death, and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State

Chapter 13 Natural and National Monuments — Felicia Hemans’s ‘The Image in Lava’: A Note