{"product_id":"second-sight-9780719071454","title":"Second sight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eA note on the texts\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. ‘An aching pulse of melodies’: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poetic magnetism\u003cbr\u003e2. ‘Walter Pater’s ‘strange veil of sight’\u003cbr\u003e3. Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and ‘the spell of the fragment’\u003cbr\u003e4. Theodore Watts-Dunton’s Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e5. Thomas Hardy’s poetry: ‘the intenser stare of the mind’\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037302194519,"sku":"9780719071454","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719071454.jpg?v=1750935243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/second-sight-9780719071454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}