Vernon Lee : a literary biography /

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"Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the twentieth century. Her chosen home was Italy, but she spent part of every year in England, where she...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Colby, Vineta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
Lee, Vernon, > 1856-1935.
Lee, Vernon.
1800-1899
Authors, English > 19th century > Biography.
Lesbians > Great Britain > Biography.
Écrivains anglais > 19e siècle > Biographies.
Lesbiennes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors, English.
Lesbians.
Great Britain.
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The infant prodigy
  • The eighteenth century and after
  • Belcaro: defining a self
  • The lesson of the master: Pater and Euphorion
  • The teller and the tales
  • Miss Brown
  • The buried life
  • "This clever woman who calls herself Vernon Lee"
  • Aesthetics and the health of the soul
  • Labora et Noli Contristari
  • Handling words: from practice to theory
  • Music: the Apollonian quest
  • Demons, ghosts, and the Genius Loci: stories of the supernatural
  • Demons, ghosts, and the Genius Loci: travel writing
  • "Sister in Utopia": the Aesthete as Polemicist
  • A wilderness of wolves
  • Hunting proteus: the last years.

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