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The comprehensive index and bibliography to the collected works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Abstract
My index and bibliography provides access to L.E.L.'s works in their original context. This use is especially important now because no collection of her work--published in her lifetime, immediately posthumously, or in our century--offers a true look at her literary production. Furthermore, I include here a publishing history for each work; the publishing history allows for textual comparisons among versions of works published at different times. Also, the publishing history shows the relative track records of different pieces and cross-genre appearances (in periodical publications, annuals, books of poetry, and so on) of works. It gives a sense of how widely published and re-published L.E.L. was, too, as well as giving the reader a feel for how many genres L.E.L. used, including non-fiction prose, fictional prose, drama and dramatic monologues. This last point is important because we view her as a poet--but on that score, my work shows the variety of verse forms in which L.E.L. wrote. Last but not least, I include in the index and bibliography mention of illustrations which accompany the works or to which L.E.L. refers in readerly directions accompanying her writings. No collection or re-publication of L.E.L.'s work pays attention to visual texts, a point which I explore at length in my introduction. My introduction surveys the challenges in reconstructing L.E.L.'s extensive corpus, an explanation of her poetic aesthetic, and a discussion of her aesthetic's origins in the periodical press of her day. I focus on these aspects in my critical writing because I think that we must recover the aesthetic context surrounding nineteenth-century British women writers simultaneously with recovering their primary works. As I make clear throughout my introduction, we cannot turn an anachronistic eye on these authors. Their work dropped from our collective cultural vision before it could deeply affect our literary criticism; our criticism, therefore, must appraise itself and consider its stance toward these "new" artists as we find them emerging in our time.
Subject Area
British and Irish literature|Womens studies
Recommended Citation
Dibert-Himes, Glenn Terry, "The comprehensive index and bibliography to the collected works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon" (1997). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9725116.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9725116