{"id":331,"date":"2014-06-04T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2014-06-04T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T11:00:44","slug":"new-essays-on-felicia-hemans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"New Essays on Felicia Hemans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Singer and Nanora Sweet have guest-edited <em>Beyond Domesticity: Felicia Hemans in the Wider World<\/em>, a special issue of <em>Women&#8217;s Writing<\/em> (21.1). This first journal issue devoted to the prolific and influential Hemans is available free to all throughout 2014 for a 7-day trial: <a title=\"Women's Writing: Hemans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/r\/rwow-special\" target=\"_blank\">www.tandfonline.com\/r\/rwow-special<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue\u2019s seven contributors challenge Hemans\u2019s association with the domestic and the familiar, finding her instead a speculative thinker and innovative artist immersed in the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and reform eras of her lifetime (1793-1835).<\/p>\n<p>Contributors include Barbara D. Taylor on power struggle over \u201cthe domestic\u201d in Hemans\u2019s juvenilia, Michael T. Williamson on Winckelmann and Pindaric ode in Hemans, Helen Luu on the deconstruction of \u201cwoman\u201d in Records of Woman, Amy L. Gates on Bentham\u2019s Auto-Icon and Hemans\u2019s effigies, Michael O\u2019Neill on posthumous Shelleyan swerves in her verse, Christopher Stokes on extremity and residue in the late \u201cprayer\u201d poems, and Diego Saglia on the adroit international poetics of her late secular work.<\/p>\n<p>Books by Ya\u00ebl 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Singer and Nanora Sweet have guest-edited Beyond Domesticity: Felicia Hemans in the Wider World, a special issue of Women&#8217;s Writing (21.1). This first journal issue devoted to the prolific&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=331\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}