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UNINA9910807681903321 |
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Autore |
Colby Vineta |
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Titolo |
Vernon Lee [[electronic resource] ] : a literary biography / / Vineta Colby |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2003 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 p.) |
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Collana |
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Victorian literature and culture series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, English - 19th century |
Lesbians - Great Britain |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-372) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Infant Prodigy -- 2 The Eighteenth Century and After -- 3 Belcaro: Defining a Self -- 4 The Lesson of the Master: Pater and Euphorion -- 5 The Teller and the Tales -- 6 Miss Brown -- 7 The Buried Life -- 8 "This Clever Woman Who Calls Herself Vernon Lee" -- 9 Aesthetics and the Health of the Soul -- 10 Labora et Noli Contristari -- 11 Handling Words: From Practice to Theory -- 12 Music: The Apollonian Quest -- 13 Demons, Ghosts, and the Genius Loci: Stories of the Supernatural -- 14 Demons, Ghosts, and the Genius Loci: Travel Writing -- 15 "Sister in Utopia": The Aesthete as Polemicist -- 16 A Wilderness of Wolves -- 17 Hunting Proteus: The Last Years -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations. |
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