The Domestic Affections ; The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy
Author: Mrs. Hemans
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mrs. Hemans
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mrs. Hemans
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9780691050294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national "feminine" values. However, this same narrow perception of her work eventually relegated Hemans to an obscurity lightened occasionally by parody and a sentimental enthusiasm for poems such as "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" and "Casabianca." Only now is Hemans's work being rediscovered and reconsidered--for the complexity of its social and political vision, but also for its sounding of dissonances in nineteenth-century cultural ideals, and for its recasting of the traditional canon of male "Romantics." Offering readers a firsthand acquaintance with the remarkable range of Hemans's writing, this volume includes five major works in their entirety, along with a much-admired aggregate, Records of Woman. Hemans's letters, many published here for the first time, reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her emerging celebrity, while reviews and letters from others--including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and the Wordsworths--tell the story of Hemans's reception in her time. An introduction by editor Susan Wolfson puts these writings, as well as Hemans's life and work, into much-needed perspective for the contemporary reader.
Author: Bruce Haley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0791487679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the "museum age," Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as "living forms," mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms.
Author: Patrick H. Vincent
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781584654315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An elegant and provocative study of the literary and political effects of the work of romantic poetesses in England, France, and Russia.
Author: Robert Farquharson Sharp
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 1232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 2648
ISBN-13: 0195169212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
Author: Felicia Hemans
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2002-01-22
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781551111377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Felicia Hemans was the most widely read woman poet in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world. Broadview’s edition shows why she was one of the few standard poets to be found in middle-class homes on both sides of the Atlantic, despite being routinely disparaged as a “merely” feminine poet. Included here is poetry representative of her entire career, from often-anthologized works, such as “The Homes of England” and “Casabianca,” to several long poems in their entirety, such as “The Forest Sanctuary.” Also included are selections of her prose and letters, a comprehensive introduction, and selections of views and reviews showing her changing and controversial place in culture into the twentieth century. All selections are edited, annotated, and introduced.