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Book SynopsisAn innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature and its relation to visionary Romanticism through its examination of six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy. -- .
Trade Review[a] truly fascinating work… Maxwell's ability to take the reader into the hallowed area of her writers' imaginations makes this a spectacular work. Second Sight is a profoundly complex study of the workings of the interior language of the creative imagination… beautifully written... desirable on the bookself of anybody interested in Romantic, Victorian and early twentieth-century literature. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
A note on the texts
Introduction
1. ‘An aching pulse of melodies’: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poetic magnetism
2. ‘Walter Pater’s ‘strange veil of sight’
3. Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and ‘the spell of the fragment’
4. Theodore Watts-Dunton’s Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism
5. Thomas Hardy’s poetry: ‘the intenser stare of the mind’
References
Index
