@article{ntn 9122, author = {Isobel Armstrong}, title = {Poetics of the Steel Plate Engraving: Letitia Landon and <i>Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book</i>}, volume = {2023}, year = {2023}, url = {http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/9122/}, issue = {34}, doi = {10.16995/ntn.9122}, abstract = {<span style="font-style: normal;">The central argument of this detailed reading of Landon’s editorship of </span><i>Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> of 1832 turns on the technology of the (capitalist) steel plate and its composition through the accumulation of lines rather than through mimetic techniques. I suggest that Landon foregoes the mimetic contract in favour of a metonymic contract of juxtaposition deriving from her decision to prioritize the poetic line and the second-order poetics of stereotype and cliché (both terms of print technology). She employs a technique of adjacency and a continual play on the meaning of the line in order to set in motion a questioning of British assumptions about trade hegemony and the colonial imaginary that many of the poems invoke. I suggest that this is a genuinely new and original poetics.</span>}, month = {3}, keywords = {Letitia Landon,steel plate engraving,poetics,scrapbook}, issn = {1755-1560}, publisher={Open Library of Humanities}, journal = {19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century} }