Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, "My ghosts are what
you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing,
that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others,
my own." First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of
supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of
the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure
of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity
and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the
four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others,
enables readers to consider Lee's work anew for its subtle
redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian
fin-de-siecle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts
from writings by Lee's predecessors and peers, including Algernon
Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee's brother Eugene
Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes
and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to
her own purposes.
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