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The Birth of the Mass-Market Poet The Birth of the Mass-Market Poet
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Mobile Poetry: Hemans’s ‘The Better Land’ Mobile Poetry: Hemans’s ‘The Better Land’
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Religious and Juvenile Periodical Markets Religious and Juvenile Periodical Markets
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Poetry and Performance Poetry and Performance
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The American Market The American Market
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Imaging the Poet: ‘To My Own Portrait’ Imaging the Poet: ‘To My Own Portrait’
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Conclusion: Surveying Networks Conclusion: Surveying Networks
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Notes Notes
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1 Felicia Hemans and the Birth of the Mass-Market Woman Poet
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Published:February 2021
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Abstract
This chapter focuses the career of Felicia Hemans, one of the first women writers to achieve widespread fame as a mass-market poet. I begin with an overview of the revolution in print that corresponded with the span of Hemans’s career, 1808 to 1835. While Hemans’s poems might have made their first appearance in books or periodicals priced at one shilling or more, they were among the most frequently reprinted content in periodicals and newspapers aimed at broad audiences that included working-class and lower-middle-class readers. In the second part of this chapter, I use Hemans’s poem ‘The Better Land’ as a case study for exploring how the practice of reprinting enabled the dissemination of her work to mass-market audiences and niche readerships. In the third section of this chapter, I explore the history of American reprintings of Hemans’s poetry, highlighting how she negotiated the lack of international copyright protection for British authors in order to harness new markets abroad. I close the chapter by exploring a posthumously published poem, ‘To My Own Portrait.’ Its circulation in memorials after Hemans’s death tells us much about emergent visual print culture, which defined the ‘poetess’ as both a celebrity author and a pictorial image.
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