Second Sight - The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2011
First published:	2008
Authors:	Catherine Maxwell
Dimensions:	234 x 165 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	265
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-7145-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-7145-3
Barcode:	9780719071454

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