Vernon Lee : decadence, ethics, aesthetics
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Vernon Lee : decadence, ethics, aesthetics
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Note
"This collection of essays stems from an international conference 'Vernon Lee: literary revenant', organized by Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham, and held in London at the Institute of English Studies in June 2003"--Pref
Bibliography: p. 193-204
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This, the first collection of essays on the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, offers a wide range of critical writings by scholars. Key works are examined including Euphorion, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories and Music and Its Lovers . New light is shed on Lee's relationships with contemporaries such as Lee-Hamilton, Pater and Wilde.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Vernon Lee Chronology Introduction
- C.Maxwell & P.Pulham CREATIVE CONNECTIONS Vernon Lee and Eugene Lee-Hamilton
- C.Maxwell Vernon Lee and the Pater Circle
- L.Brake DECADENT DISSOLUTIONS 'Warming Me Like a Cordial': The Ethos of the Body in Vernon Lee's Aesthetics
- C.A.Wiley Vernon Lee, Decadent Contamination and the Productivist Ethos
- D.Denisoff QUEER CONTEXTS Vernon Lee and the Gender of Aestheticism
- S.Evangelista The Snake Lady and the Bruised Bodley Head: Vernon Lee and Oscar Wilde in the Yellow Book
- M.D.Stetz Duality and Desire in Louis Norbert
- P.Pulham ART AND ARGUMENT Performing Pacifism: The Battle between The Artist and Author in The Ballet of the Nations
- G.Brockington Plural Anomalies: Gender and Sexuality in Bio-Critical Readings of Vernon Lee
- J.Briggs The Handling of Words : Reader Response Victorian Style
- C.Zorn Bibliography Index
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