Second sight : the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / Catherine Maxwelll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Catherine, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

x, 260 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

" An aching pulse of melodies': Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetic magnetism

" Walter Pater's " strange veil of sight'

Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and " the spell of the fragment'

Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism

Thomas Hardy's poetry: " the intenser stare of the mind'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-251) and index.

ISBN:

9780719071447

0719071445

OCLC:

234435643