Graven Images: The Woman Writer, the Indian Poetess, and Imperial Aesthetics in L.E.L.'s "Hindoo Temples and Palaces at Madura.'

Fernandez offers a reading of Letitia Landon as both English and feminine, with reference to one of her poems on India, entitled "Hindoo Temples and Places at Madura," in order to demonstrate the complexity of Landon's aesthetic and to supplement existing critical analyses of the configurations of the poetess tradition as found in her verses.