Patricia Pulham & Catherine Maxwell 
Vernon Lee [PDF ebook] 
Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

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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.

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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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LAUREL BRAKE Professor in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JO BRIGGS Ph D student at Yale University, USA GRACE BROCKINGTON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, UK DENNIS DENISOFF Ryerson Chair in the English Department and Graduate Programme in Communications and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada STEFANO EVANGELISTA Fitzjames Research Fellow in English at Merton College, Oxford, UK MARGARET D. STETZ Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA CATHERINE ANNE WILEY Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA CHRISTA ZORN Associate Professor of English and Co-ordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 210 ● ISBN 9780230287525 ● Filstorlek 24.3 MB ● Utgivare Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Publicerad 2006 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4880836 ● Kopieringsskydd Social DRM

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