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- Title
Graven Images: The Woman Writer, the Indian Poetess, and Imperial Aesthetics in L.E.L.'s "Hindoo Temples and Palaces at Madura.".
- Authors
Fernandez, Jean
- Abstract
The article focuses on a poet Letitia Landon (L.E.L.) and her poetic writing. The sample chosen is an intriguing poem that first appeared under the title of "Hindoo Temples and Palace at Madura" in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrapbook, 1836 later republished in The Zenana and Minor Poems with a Memoir by Emma Roberts (1839) and the Poetical Works of 1873. In its original context the poem functioned as supplement to an engraving of the Madura-Meenakshi temple of Madura, or Madurai as it is now spelled, a city in Southern India. L.E.L.'s feminist meditation upon an engraving of a temple as sculptural and religious artifact appears doubly ekphrastic in its preoccupations, yet diverges in several ways from its more traditional literary manifestations.
- Subjects
WOMEN poets; L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838; AESTHETICS; RELIGIOUS institutions; FEMINISM; POETRY (Literary form); VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0016