TY - BOOK AU - Maxwell,Catherine TI - Second sight: the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature SN - 9781847791801 AV - PR468.R65 M39 2009eb U1 - 820.9008 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Manchester, U.K., New York, New York PB - Manchester University Press, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Romanticism KW - Littérature anglaise KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Romantisme KW - romanticism (form of expression) KW - aat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=515014 ER -