Second Sight: The visionary imagination in late Victorian by Catherine Maxwell
By Catherine Maxwell
It examines six overdue Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy - to bare their dedication to a Romantic visionary culture which floor in the direction of the top of the 19th century in accordance with the specter of turning out to be materialism. providing exact and ingenious readings of either poetry and prose, moment Sight exhibits the various ways that overdue Victorian writers circulation past materiality, with out wasting a dedication to it, to discover the mysterious relation among the obvious and the unseen.
A significant second look of the post-Romantic visionary mind's eye, with implications for our figuring out of literary modernism, moment Sight might be required interpreting for students drawn to the literature of the past due Victorian period.
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