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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819599403321

Autore

Maxwell Catherine <1962->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2008

ISBN

1-84779-486-6

1-78170-109-1

1-84779-180-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

820.9008

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Romanticism

Literature

Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page [232]-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. It examines six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy - to reveal their commitment to a Romantic visionary



tradition which surfaces towards the end of the nineteenth century in response to the threat of a growing materialism. Offering detailed and imaginative readings of both poetry and prose, Seco