03707nam 2200841 450 991079195170332120200122113259.01-84779-486-61-78170-109-11-84779-180-810.7765/9781847791801(CKB)2560000000085733(EBL)1069533(OCoLC)818847232(SSID)ssj0000712845(PQKBManifestationID)12266694(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712845(PQKBWorkID)10651304(PQKB)11304980(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086848(Au-PeEL)EBL1069533(CaPaEBR)ebr10623388(CaONFJC)MIL844529(MiAaPQ)EBC1069533(UkMaJRU)992979819723701631(DE-B1597)659652(DE-B1597)9781847791801(EXLCZ)99256000000008573320191212h20132008 ||| |engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSecond sight the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature /Catherine MaxwellManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2013.©20081 online resource (x, 260 pages) digital file(s)Includes index.0-7190-7145-3 0-7190-7144-5 Includes bibliographical references (page [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'; IndexThis 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, SecoEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismRomanticismLiteraturemupLiterary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900bicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisachIrelandthemaRomanticism.canonical writers.late Victorian literature.late Victorian writers.late nineteenth century.literary modernism.materialism.materiality.seen and unseen.visionary.English literatureHistory and criticism.Romanticism.LiteratureLiterary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIreland820.9008Maxwell Catherine1962-1478840UkMaJRUBOOK9910791951703321Second sight3694670UNINA