The golden violet, with its tales of romance and chivalry : and other poems

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The golden violet, with its tales of romance and chivalry : and other poems

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(Women and romanticism, 1790-1830 / edited by Roxanne Eberle, v. 5)

Routledge, 2006

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827

"Memoir of Letitia Elizabeth Landon": p. 321-326

"Memoir of L.E.L.": p. 329-357

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: set ISBN 9780415342186

Description

Demonstrating the breadth and scope of women's writing in the Romantic period, this collection covers a variety of topics ranging across polemical treatises, private correspondence, philosophical and historical disquisitions, and poetry and prose fiction. Helping to contextualise the areas discussed, the collection includes a general introduction by the editor, which traces the history of criticism in the field, and thus current definitions of "Women and Romanticism", before going on to discuss the contents of each volume.

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Introduction and contemporary accounts of the state of women's writing and the political/ artistic/ aesthetic goals of Romantic women writers Volume 2: Political Treatises Excerpts and whole texts by authors including Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Ann Radcliffe, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary Hays and Mary Robinson Volume 3: Women's writing on History, Religion, and Philanthropy Excerpts and whole texts by authors including Hannah More, Mary Hays and Lucy Aiken Volume 4: Poetry Selections from Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon and others Volume 5: Material conditions of publication and female authorship
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ISBN 9780415342247

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First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism's fifth volume covers The Golden Violet, with its Tales of Romance and Chivalry: and Other Poems. The collection reproduces work by Letitia Landon and thus addresses yet another gap in current accounts of women and Romanticism. Although Landon is now readily acknowledged as a significant author of the period, it is also the case that critical examinations of her life and work have tended to reinforce her own carefully crafted image as a poetess.Until the 1980s, a five-volume collection of materials on 'Women and Romanticism' would have been inconceivable, since Romantic studies largely restricted itself to a consideration of the major male poets of the period (William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats), When women were present in accounts of Romanticism, they were considered in terms of their literary function (as objects of representation), or in relation to their domestic (as mothers, daughters, wives and lovers of the authors). Indeed, the first Romantic women writers to enter academic discourse were those with familial connections to the canonized poets: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Dorothy Wordsworth. Other writers of interest in the 1970s included Frances Burney and Jane Austen.

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