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Second sight : the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / Catherine Maxwell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847791801
  • 1847791808
  • 9781781701096
  • 1781701091
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Second sight.DDC classification:
  • 820.9008 22
LOC classification:
  • PR468.R65 M39 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
9780719071447; 9780719071447; Cover; Contents; 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'; Index.
Summary: An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. It examines the subject in relation to a range of writers of the period, including Pater Rossetti, Hardy and Vernon Lee.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-251) and index.

9780719071447; 9780719071447; Cover; Contents; 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'; Index.

An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. It examines the subject in relation to a range of writers of the period, including Pater Rossetti, Hardy and Vernon Lee.

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