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L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- Title
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron" / Lucasta Miller.
- Author
- Miller, Lucasta
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-5986 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 401 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L.--its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion.
- Alternative Title
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- LEL
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Historical fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-377) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5986
- ISBN
- 9780375412783
- 0375412786
- LCCN
- 2018029621
- 40028967004
- OCLC
- 1040169641
- Author
- Miller, Lucasta, author.
- Title
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron" / Lucasta Miller.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-377) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Miller, Lucasta, author. L. E. L. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 9780525655350 (DLC) 2018042545
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028967004
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5986