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Autore: |
Maxwell Catherine <1962->
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Titolo: |
Second sight : the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / / Catherine Maxwell
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Pubblicazione: | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
©2008 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina: | 820.9008 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Romanticism | |
Literature | |
Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | |
Ireland | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Romanticism |
canonical writers | |
late Victorian literature | |
late Victorian writers | |
late nineteenth century | |
literary modernism | |
materialism | |
materiality | |
seen and unseen | |
visionary | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Second sight ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-84779-486-6 |
1-78170-109-1 | |
1-84779-180-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791951703321 |
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