Kate Singer and Nanora Sweet are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of Women's Writing (21.1, 2014), “Beyond Domesticity: Felicia Hemans in the Wider World,” which they have guest-edited. This first journal issue devoted to the prolific and influential Hemans is available free to all throughout 2014 for a 7-day trial: www.tandfonline.com/r/rwow-special,
The issue’s seven essays challenge Hemans’s association with the domestic and the familiar. They find her instead a speculative thinker, an innovative artist immersed in classical, romantic, and international poetics, and an informed participant in the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and reform eras of her lifetime (1793-1835). The essays comprise a vigorous dialogue among themselves and more broadly with the poet's foregoing critics. The collection follows the arc of Hemans’s career, framing new readings of well-known books like Records of Woman in explorations of the poet’s less familiar juvenilia and final books.
Contributors include Barbara D. Taylor on power struggle over “the domestic” in Hemans’s juvenilia, Michael T. Williamson on Winckelmann and Pindaric ode in Hemans, Helen Luu on the deconstruction of “woman” in Records of Woman, Amy L. Gates on Bentham’s Auto-Icon and Hemans’s effigies, Michael O’Neill on posthumous Shelleyan swerves in her verse, Christopher Stokes on extremity and residue in the late “prayer” poems, and Diego Saglia on the adroit international poetics of her late secular work.
Books by Yaël Schlick, Ann R. Hawkins and Maura Ives, Orianne Smith, and Noah Comet are reviewed respectively by Margaret Higonnet, Eric Eisner, Deborah Kennedy, and Shanyn Fiske.
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