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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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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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Vernon Lee and the Gender of Aestheticism
2006In recent years critics have eloquently documented the connection between aestheticism and an emergent male homosexual subculture.1 The central figures in the aesthetic canon — Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, Henry James — are now seen to have explored the ways in which the desire of men for other men influenced the artistic and ...
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Women's Writing, 1992
Abstract This article tracks the evolution of the sexual and aesthetic politics of the late-Victorian critic, aesthetician and Renaissance historiographer Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) in response to the controversies generated by "the Aesthetic Movement" at the fin de siecle.
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Abstract This article tracks the evolution of the sexual and aesthetic politics of the late-Victorian critic, aesthetician and Renaissance historiographer Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) in response to the controversies generated by "the Aesthetic Movement" at the fin de siecle.
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GHOSTS, AESTHETICISM, AND “VERNON LEE”
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2000“TO RAISE A REAL SPECTRE of the antique is a craving of our own century” (104) writes “Vernon Lee” in her early collection of essays on aesthetics, Belcaro. The nineteenth century is indeed, as Julia Briggs has pointed out, an age which craves ghost stories of all kinds.
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2018
Throughout her career, the late-Victorian essayist, fiction writer, and aesthetic theorist Vernon Lee (1856-1935) sustained a critique of the Aesthetic movement to which she was nevertheless an important contributor. Finding that the doctrine ofl’art pour l’artsanctioned elitist self-absorption, irresponsible excess and intellectual vapidity, Lee ...
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Throughout her career, the late-Victorian essayist, fiction writer, and aesthetic theorist Vernon Lee (1856-1935) sustained a critique of the Aesthetic movement to which she was nevertheless an important contributor. Finding that the doctrine ofl’art pour l’artsanctioned elitist self-absorption, irresponsible excess and intellectual vapidity, Lee ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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1992
Over the last twenty years or so, much energy and ink have been devoted to attempts to define the female writer’s relationship to various literary movements and practices. There is already available, for example, a large body of material examining gender and Victorian literature, and gender and Modernism.1 It is the issue of the relationship of gender ...
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Over the last twenty years or so, much energy and ink have been devoted to attempts to define the female writer’s relationship to various literary movements and practices. There is already available, for example, a large body of material examining gender and Victorian literature, and gender and Modernism.1 It is the issue of the relationship of gender ...
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“Traces of the Exotic” in Vernon Lee’s “Oke of Okehurst; Or, the Phantom Lover”
Women's Writing, 2021Sally Blackburn-Daniels
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