Paula R. Feldman

Professor
C. Wallace Martin Professor of English,
Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts

Office: 516 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2204
feldmanp@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974

Specialization Areas

• British Romanticism
• Poetry
• History of the Book

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 723  British Poetry of the Romantic Period  
• English 724 Romantic Prose
• English 737 British Literature by Women
• English 820 Editing the Romantics
• ENGL 820A  Charlotte Smith,Mary Robinson and Felicia Hemans
• English 820G Gothic Fiction

Current Research Project(s)

• "The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe" (with Brian Cooney) under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press
  
  
• "Mary Tighe: A Literary Life"
  

Books and Articles

	The Keepsake for 1829 (Broadview Encore Edition, Broadview Press, 2006)
	A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 [ed. with Daniel Robinson] (New York: Oxford University Press, New York, 1999); reprinted in paperback 2002.
	British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: 1770-1840 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997; reprinted in paperback 2000).
	Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems ed. (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1999).
	Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices [ed. with Theresa M. Kelley] (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England; 1995).
	The Journals of Mary Shelley [ed. with Diana Scott-Kilvert], 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987; paperback reprint Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

"Women, Literary Annuals, and the Evidence of Inscriptions," Keats-Shelley
Journal (winter 2006): 54-62.

"Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era" in New Literary History, vol. 33, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 279-289; reprinted in Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, ed. E. J. Clery, Caroline Franklin, Peter Garside (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002): 44-53.

"Endurance and Forgetting: What the Evidence Suggests" in Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception ed. Stephen Behrendt and Harriet Linkin (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999): 15-21.

"The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace," Keats-Shelley Journal, 46 (summer 1997) 148-76; reprinted in Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900 eds. Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain (London: Macmillan, 1999): 71-101.