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The Art of Feeling: Subjective Criticism and Emotional Resonance

19, 2023
This article is a personal reflection on the importance of ‘feeling’ and affective response in Hilary Fraser’s work, focusing on her chapter, ‘Writing in the Margins and Reading Between the Lines in Vernon Lee’s Library’, in Dalla stanza accanto: Vernon ...
Patricia Pulham
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Moving

19, 2023
The gallery space is full of static objects but also of movement. This is the space Vernon Lee sought to understand, theorizing and experimenting about how art moves.
Carolyn Burdett
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John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Vernon Lee

19, 2023
The year is 1881 and John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) has captured his close friend, the art historian and aesthetic critic Vernon Lee (1856–1935) on canvas.
Maria Alambritis
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Vernon Lee (14 October 1856–13 February 1935)

19, 2019
Biography of Vernon Lee.
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
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«Amore su la ruina»: strategie del desiderio mimetico nel primo libro del Forse che sì forse che no

Archivio d’Annunzio, 2021
The aim of this paper is to investigate the first chapter of Forse che sì forse che no (1910). D’Annunzio’s last novel brings together the myths of the technical age, celebrated by Futurism, and the conflicting forces of forbidden desire, debilitating
Gialloreto, Andrea
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Visioni vittoriane: il paesaggio fiorentino nelle opere di Janet Ross e Vernon Lee

Ri-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2015
Fra l’ultimo scorcio dell’Ottocento e i primi decenni del Novecento Firenze e i suoi dintorni sono il soggetto privilegiato di una grande quantità di descrizioni, note di diario, racconti, opera di scrittori stranieri, in particolare inglesi, che si ...
Gabriele Corsani
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2016
When Vernon Lee visited Southern Spain in 1889, she found the Catholic practices of the country extremely unsettling. The overloaded decoration of the churches and the preference for representations of bleeding Christs were, in Lee’s eyes, ‘obscene’ and ‘
Leire Barrera-Medrano
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A Present-Day Morality for the Present Day

19, 2020
In May 2019 an international cooperative of researchers, performers, and artists staged Vernon Lee’s (Violet Paget, 1856–1935) pacifist drama The Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality (1915) at her Villa Il Palmerino, Florence.
Sally Blackburn-Daniels
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Writing Cosmopolis: The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Emilia Dilke and Vernon Lee

19, 2019
In his 1920 review of Vernon Lee’s avant-garde pacifist allegory Satan, the Waster: A Philosophical Trilogy, George Bernard Shaw salutes the author as a representative of ‘the old guard of Victorian cosmopolitan intellectualism’.
Hilary Fraser
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Être et paraître dans Miss Brown De Vernon Lee

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2008
In her first novel Miss Brown (1884), Vernon Lee painted a critical picture of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and the Aesthetic circle. She critiqued the ideological underpinnings of the Aesthetic movement, analyzing in particular how the supposedly ...
Catherine Delyfer
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