Second Sight

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.

ISBN 0719071445   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780719071447 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 590 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Nov 2008   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress PR871   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 820.9008   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		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

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