[Patricia Pulham] Vernon Lee Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)(pdf){Zzzzz}[BЯ]

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. New light is shed on Lee's personal and professional relationships with contemporaries such as Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Berenson, and original and exciting approaches taken to key works including her essay on the Italian Renaissance, Euphorion (1884), two of her short stories of 'Oke of Okehurst' and 'Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady', her fascinating historical detective novel Louis Norbert (1914), her pacifist drama The Ballet of the Nations, and her innovative book on literary theory: The Handling of Words (1923). Using new archival material, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Victorian literature and culture, gay and lesbian studies, aesthetics, literary decadence, art history and women's studies, amongst others.

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'Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics... plays an integral role in reinvigorating the literary reputation of one of the most important late-Victorian women writers.' - Kristin Mahoney, Victorian Studies

'a thoroughly stimulating, cogent, highly readable collection of essays, that will undoubtedly attract further critical attention to one of the most original interdisciplinary thinkers of her generation' - Shafquat Towheed, Nineteenth-Century Literature

'Maxwell and Pulham's joint Introduction sets the agenda with a rich biographical, cultural and critical contextualisation of Lee and her works... Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham – as well as Palgrave...are to be commended.' - Matthew Mitton, Women: A Cultural Review
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CATHERINE MAXWELL is Reader in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She is the author of The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness, 2001, editor of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1997, and her monograph Swinburne in the series Writers and Their Work is forthcoming in 2005. She has also published many articles on Victorian writers including Vernon Lee.

PATRICIA PULHAM is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth. She has published a number of articles on nineteenth-century literature and is currently working on a monograph, Aesthetic Forms and Transitional Objects in Vernon Lee's Fantastic Tales.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (12 April 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1403992134
ISBN-13: 978-1403992130