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La Città infestata: Genius loci e geografia immaginale del perturbante in Vernon Lee

Polythesis
A brief digression through the gothic narrative work of Vernon Lee and her relationship with Italy, its landscape and its history, considered in consonance with the aesthetic concept taken up by Vernon Lee from classical mythology: that of the Genius ...
Walter Catalano
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Vernon Lee’s travel essays and the “confusion” of optical and temporal lines

E-REA
Vernon Lee’s response to impressionism is mixed, but in Limbo she lauds the impressionist painters’ ability to capture “the confusion of Nature’s effects.” This article builds on the idea of impressionist confusion in Vernon Lee’s travel writing, placing
Claire McKEOWN
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« A critical duet » : les échanges épistolaires de Vernon Lee et Irene Forbes-Mosse autour de la musique

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This paper focuses on the correspondence between Vernon Lee and the German writer Irene Forbes-Mosse who, like Lee, was based in Florence, Italy. The two women met around 1900.
Claire McKeown, Kerstin Wiedemann
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Vernon Lee’s Vision of Ecological Crisis and Dantean Hell

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
In her second collection of travel essays The Enchanted Woods and other Essays on the Genius of Places (1905) Vernon Lee recalls her impressions of European landscapes and cultural heritage. While viewing Buffalmacco’s Last Judgement and Hell (1336–1341)
Zaynub Zaman
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Literary Cosmopolitanism in the Age of the League of Nations: Vernon Lee, Daniel Halévy and La Revue De Genève

Journal of European Studies, 2021
In 1921, the newly founded French-language periodical, La Revue de Genève, featured an exchange of letters between Daniel Halévy and Vernon Lee in which the two writers articulated contrasting visions of national identity and international literary ...
Stefano Evangelista
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Genius loci: Vernon Lee e la via amatoriale alla scrittura della storia

Storia delle Donne
A central figure in the Anglo-florentine community at the turn of the 20th century, Vernon Lee (1856-1935) was a major contributor to the debates on aesthetics, history and literature in the transition from Victorian culture to modernism.
Gianna Pomata
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Rewilding Venus: The Intermedial Ecologies of Vernon Lee’s ‘Dionea’ and ‘St. Eudæmon and His Orange-Tree’

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
In Vernon Lee’s story ‘Dionea’ (1890), an orphaned girl who is shipwrecked on the shores of an Italian town is believed by the locals to possess supernatural abilities similar to those of the goddess Venus.
Elizabeth Howard, Stefanie John
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Art as a Training-Place: Attention and Aesthetic Training in Vernon Lee

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
The article explores Vernon Lee’s concept of aesthetic training, arguing that her concept of cultivated attentiveness is an essential yet critically underexplored prerequisite for aesthetic enjoyment and, by extension, for Lee’s formal-dynamic empathy ...
Orsolya Albert
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‘Read thirty years ago and long since forgotten’: T. H. Huxley’s Romanes Lecture (1893) in Vernon Lee’s Proteus or the Future of Intelligence (1925)

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Vernon Lee’s views on evolution were influenced by the legacy of Darwinism, i.e. by Charles Darwin himself, but also by such men as his most famous supporter, T. H. Huxley (1825–1895). In her 1925 book Proteus or the Future of Intelligence (London, Kegan
Michel Prum
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Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wedding Chest’: Preserving the Renaissance

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
To date, Vernon Lee’s short story ‘A Wedding Chest’ (1888) has received little critical attention. Although it was included in the 2006 Broadview edition of Lee’s Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales that I co-edited with Patricia Pulham, in the years ...
Catherine Maxwell
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