This challenging and important study, which examines a range of
canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative
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 which surfaces
towards the end of the nineteenth century in response to the threat
of a growing materialism. Offering detailed and imaginative
readings of both poetry and prose, Second sight 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. A major re-evaluation of
the post-Romantic visionary imagination, with implications for our
understanding of literary modernism, Second sight will be required
reading for scholars interested in the literature of the late
Victorian period.
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