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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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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935
2023Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget - a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vernon Lee’s Aesthetic Philosophy, 1880–1914
2023Abstract Violet Paget adopted the pseudonym “Vernon Lee” in an attempt to leave her gender undecided in the reader’s mind. As she explained to her mentor Camilla Jenkin on December 18, 1878, she felt that “no one reads a woman’s writing on art, history or aesthetics with anything but unmitigated contempt.” Yet despite being “outed” as ...
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