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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Second Sight
• Subtitle: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
• Author: Catherine Maxwell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265
• EAN: 9780719071454
• ISBN: 0719071453
• ID: 04647877
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 398 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 157 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2011

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