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LETITIA LANDON'S LITERARY CRITICISM AND HER ROMANTIC PROJECT: L.E.L.'S POETICS OF FEELING AND THE PERIODICAL REVIEWS
Ist Teil von
Women's writing : the Elizabethan to Victorian period, 2011-08, Vol.18 (3), p.305-330
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Taylor & Francis
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Reading Letitia Landon's literary criticism in the context of the periodical reviews of her imaginative publications reveals that her poetry placed her at the hub of a contemporary debate on literary values in which both sides viewed literature as a force for social amelioration, but disagreed over the qualities that made it effective, a debate on which Landon herself weighed in through her critical essays. At a time when reviewers frequently sought to police out of literature the corruption of what they viewed as inauthentic, conventional, feminized sentimentality, Landon's critical essays reveal a commitment to emphasis on sentiment which enabled her to cultivate among her readers a community of shared feeling and collective sympathy, a poetic purpose that she saw as placing her work alongside some of the most respected among Romantic-period authors. As serious about her artistry as about her commercial success, she confronted critical speculation about the emotional inauthenticity and biographical veracity of her poems' subjects by theorizing a breach between the poetic persona and the author's private self, where feeling is free to circulate to the mass reading audiences of the emerging world of commercial literary success.