Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature - Rilegato

Maxwell, Catherine

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ISBN 10: 0719071445 ISBN 13: 9780719071447

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. It examines six late Victorian writers--Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy--to reveal their commitment to a Romantic visionary tradition which surfaces towards the end of the nineteenth century in response to the threat of a growing materialism. Offering detailed and imaginative readings of both poetry and prose, Second Sight shows the different ways in which late Victorian writers move beyond materiality, though without losing a commitment to it, to explore the mysterious relation between the seen and the unseen. A major re-evaluation of the post-Romantic visionary imagination, with implications for our understanding of literary modernism, Second Sight will be required reading for scholars interested in the literature of the late Victorian period.

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L'autore:

Catherine Maxwell is Reader in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Book by Maxwell Catherine

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0719071445
• ISBN 13: 9780719071447
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 260