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Yearbook of English Studies, 2022
:This article argues that what we might call Whistlerian Impressionism offers the best analogy to a dominant strand of impressionistic prose in English, being close to it in purpose and characteristics.
Catherine Maxwell
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:This article argues that what we might call Whistlerian Impressionism offers the best analogy to a dominant strand of impressionistic prose in English, being close to it in purpose and characteristics.
Catherine Maxwell
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Vernon Lee’s Decadent Vision of History: Waste and Possibility
Anglia. Zeitschrift für englische PhilologieThis article considers the notion of decadence in relation to Vernon Lee’s concept of history, looking particularly at her late play, Satan the Waster (1920). In the play, Lee offers a portrayal of decadence not – as other thinkers concerned with history
James Dowthwaite
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Vernon Lee, Queer Relations, and a New Guard of Victorianist Multilingualism
Victorian Studies, 2022:Vernon Lee was proficient in four languages, yet little attention has been given to her non-English literary networks and publications. This article draws on peritexts, periodical reviews, and correspondence to address that gap and to connect Lee's ...
C. Valentine
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Vernon Lee: Slow Serialist and Journalist at the Fin de Siècle
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2021To expand understanding of imbricated journalism and high aestheticism at the fin de siècle, this essay examines Vernon Lee's journalism and slow essay serials, a form spread over space (viz., different periodicals) and marked by irregular temporal issue
Linda K. Hughes
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"Sinister Exile": Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee
Victorian Studies, 2021:The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic's role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater's "A Study of Dionysus:
D. Friedman
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Vernon Lee's Anti-Imperial Decadence
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures:Vernon Lee wrote an anti-imperial allegory, Satan the Waster, during and after World War I. She also composed a decadent ghost story in the 1880s that took aim at English global hegemony.
Manya Lempert
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Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence
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Vernon Lee’s Novel Construction
Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2020Irena Yamboliev, “Vernon Lee’s Novel Construction” (pp. 346–371) This essay proposes that we understand Vernon Lee’s debut novel, Miss Brown (1884), as enacting a theory of literary language’s constructive potency that Lee develops in her critical essays.
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Modernist Cultures
Though Virginia Woolf’s interest in the fantastic certainly makes itself most obvious in the fantastical biography Orlando (1928), this article argues that Woolf engages the fantastic across her writing, developing her version of what Max Weber defines ...
Sarah Potts Jones
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Though Virginia Woolf’s interest in the fantastic certainly makes itself most obvious in the fantastical biography Orlando (1928), this article argues that Woolf engages the fantastic across her writing, developing her version of what Max Weber defines ...
Sarah Potts Jones
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Vernon Lee and Eugene Lee-Hamilton
2006Both Eugene Lee-Hamilton and his half-sister Vernon Lee were drawn to images of disinterment and discovery. In one of his earlier sonnets ‘Sunken Gold’, Lee-Hamilton pictures submerged treasure — ‘In dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships’ — a treasure which he compares, as he frequently does, with his own gifts and hopes wasted by the illness which ...
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