Vernon Lee

Laurus Nobilis (eBook, ePUB)

Chapters on Art and Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this work of nonfiction, Vernon Lee defends the principles of Aestheticism, a movement in art and art criticism which sought to emphasize the beautiful rather than moral applications of human creativity. Lyrical and personal, these essays are essential to her body of work. Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life is a collection of essays by Vernon Lee.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513297187
• Artikelnr.: 62376934

Autorenporträt

Vernon Lee (1856-1935) was the pen name of Violet Paget, a British author of supernatural fiction. Born in France to British expatriate parents, Paget spent most of her life in continental Europe. A committed feminist and pacifist, she joined the Union of Democratic Control during the First World War to express her opposition to British militarism. A lesbian, Paget had relationships with Mary Robinson, Amy Levy, and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson throughout her life. Paget, a dedicated follower of Walter Pater's Aesthetic movement, lived for many years in Florence, where she gained a reputation as a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance. In addition to her work in art history, Paget was a leading writer of short fiction featuring supernatural figures and themes. Among her best known works are Hauntings (1890), a collection of four chilling tales, and "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady," a story which appeared in an 1895 issue of The Yellow Book, a controversial periodical that featured the works of Aubrey Beardsley, George Gissing, Henry James, and William Butler Yeats. Although Paget was largely forgotten by the mid-twentieth century, feminist scholars have rekindled attention in her pioneering work as a leading proponent of Aestheticism.