Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
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Abstract
This study, which examines a range of canonical and less-well-known writers, is a 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 that surfaces towards the end of the nineteenth century in response to the threat of a growing materialism. Offering detailed readings of both poetry and prose, the book 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. It is a re-evaluation of the post-Romantic visionary imagination, with implications for our understanding of literary modernism.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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‘An aching pulse of melodies’: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetic magnetism
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Walter Pater's ‘strange veil of sight’
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Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and ‘the spell of the fragment’
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Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism
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Thomas Hardy's poetry: ‘the intenser stare of the mind’
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End Matter
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