Maxwell Second sight

The visionary imagination in late Victorian literature
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-180-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maxwell, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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