Letitia Elizabeth Landon and metrical romance
Subtitle: the adventures of a literary genius
By: Serena Baiesi.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034304207
Subjects: L. E. L. -- 1802-1838 -- Criticism and interpretation; L. E. L. -- 1802-1838 -- Versification; L. E. L. -- 1802-1838 -- Influence; Literary form -- History -- 19th century; Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The progress of a literary career and the development of a genre: Letitia Elizabeth Landon as poet of genius; From narrative poem to dramatic monologue: Scott to Browning; title: L. E. L.'s poems of the 1820s: the beginning of a literary profession: the art of improvvisazione: English revisions of Italian oral versification; Genre permutations and gender interrelation in the improvisatrice; title: Fashionable poetry in annuals and gift-books: Poet and editor: a businesswoman in the gift-book market; Female picturesque and colonial settings in the gift-books; title: Shifting voices: from narrative to dramatic: the inter-generic play of style and character: the Venetian bracelet and Castruccio Castrucani; Letitia Elisabeth Landon's last works: premature end of a literary career; title: Appendix one: reviews and magazines: L.E.L.'s critical reception in the nineteenth century; title: Appendix two: a chronology of Letitia Elizabeth Landon.