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Aesthetic Form and the Force of Mountains: Vernon Lee’s Ecological Kinship
Prose StudiesMountains abound in Vernon Lee’s writings about travel across Europe and in her own chosen home outside of Florence in northern Italy. Lee turned to mountains as motive and motif as part of her ecological self-consciousness arising from the industrial ...
Stasha Cole
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Abstract: Victorian art critic and historian Vernon Lee is best known for her theory of empathy, which attributes art viewers' consciously held aesthetic preferences to unconsciously felt physiological responses to visual stimuli. Scholars have been especially interested in the ways empathy anticipates modernist and New Critical emphases on ...
Elizabeth Greeniaus
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Abstract: Victorian art critic and historian Vernon Lee is best known for her theory of empathy, which attributes art viewers' consciously held aesthetic preferences to unconsciously felt physiological responses to visual stimuli. Scholars have been especially interested in the ways empathy anticipates modernist and New Critical emphases on ...
Elizabeth Greeniaus
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‘The Ghost I Expected to See’: Vernon Lee, the Gothic, and the Spectrality of Perception
VictoriographiesVernon Lee considered the conventional ghost story to be in rather bad taste and, in her own Gothic fiction, evoked ghosts that are never directly apprehended, but are perceived as agential bodies nonetheless.
Anna Shane
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Vernon Lee and the Pater Circle
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-century Writing and Culture, 2006When it appeared in June 1884, Vernon Lee’s Euphorion, the first of her studies of the Renaissance, was dedicated to Walter Pater.1 Preceding Henry James and following Mary Robinson, Pater is one of a succession of luminaries to whom Vernon Lee strategically dedicated her books in the 1880s, thereby anchoring and authenticating herself in English ...
Laurel Brake
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, 2009 Vernon Lee era in contatto con D'Annunzio, fu letta da G. Carducci e corrispose con letterati e uomini di cultura italiani.
SEVERI, Rita
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Vernon Lee’s Handling of Words
2018Early schooled in writing by a pedagogy rooted in dialogic exchange, Vernon Lee (1856–1935) made the interactive relationship between writer and reader central to her critical prose. Her early essays showcase her already distinctive prose voice—markedly different from a professional academic masculine voice.
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Vernon Lee and the Difficulty with Love
Victorian StudiesAbstract: This essay investigates Vernon Lee's struggle to define love, why we have struggled to describe her relationship to love, and why love operates as a point of difficulty in her writing across genres by focusing on four well-known texts from the 1880s and 90s in which she talks at length about love and actually deploys that term: the chapter ...
K. Mahoney
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The Henry James Review, 2023
:In Vernon Lee’s essay, “The Handling of Words,” she comments on a selection from The Ambassadors to illustrate her theory of how a writer uses words to direct the thoughts and feelings of the reader in order to re-create the writer’s intent. In addition
Mary F. Burns
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:In Vernon Lee’s essay, “The Handling of Words,” she comments on a selection from The Ambassadors to illustrate her theory of how a writer uses words to direct the thoughts and feelings of the reader in order to re-create the writer’s intent. In addition
Mary F. Burns
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