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