Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings
by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Jerome J. McGann (Editor), Daniel M. Riess (Editor)
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The work of 'L.E.L.' began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon's life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of show more the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as "cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense." In addition to a broad selection of Landon's poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography. show lessTags
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A leading scholar in fields ranging from eighteenth century to contemporary literature to the theory of textuality, Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia, and founding fellow of UVA's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. The author or editor of thirty-one other books, McGann is show more also the Thomas Holloway Professor of Victorian Media and Culture, Royal Holloway College, University of London show less
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