| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |