Second sight : the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature /
An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. It examines the subject in relation to a range of writers of the period, including Pater Rossetti, Hardy and Vernon Lee.
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Manchester, U.K. ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=515014 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.