
Records of Woman, with Other Poems
Felicia Hemans(Author)
Paula R. Feldman(Editor)
The University Press of Kentucky
Published on 2. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8131-0964-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lexington
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
393 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8131-0964-0 (9780813109640)
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Persons
Paula R. Feldman, professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the editor of British Women Poets of the Romantic Era and co-editor of Romantic Women Writers and The Journals of Mary Shelley.