Catherine Maxwell

Second sight

The visionary imagination in late Victorian literature

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature and its relation to visionary Romanticism through its examination of six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780719071454
• ISBN-10: 0719071453
• Artikelnr.: 33157333

Autorenporträt

Catherine Maxwell is a Professor in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements A note on the texts Introduction 1. 'An aching pulse of
melodies': Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetic magnetism 2. 'Walter Pater's
'strange veil of sight' 3. Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee,
Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and 'the spell of the fragment' 4. Theodore
Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism 5. Thomas
Hardy's poetry: 'the intenser stare of the mind' References Index