Vernon Lee

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Catherine Maxwell, Patricia Pulham

      Pages 1-20

3. Creative Connections

   1. Vernon Lee and Eugene Lee-Hamilton

      • Catherine Maxwell

      Pages 21-39

   2. Vernon Lee and the Pater Circle

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 40-57

4. Decadent Dissolutions

   1. ‘Warming Me Like a Cordial’: The Ethos of the Body in Vernon Lee’s Aesthetics

      • Catherine Anne Wiley

      Pages 58-74

   2. Vernon Lee, Decadent Contamination and the Productivist Ethos

      • Dennis Denisoff

      Pages 75-90

5. Queer Contexts

   1. Vernon Lee and the Gender of Aestheticism

      • Stefano Evangelista

      Pages 91-111

   2. The Snake Lady and the Bruised Bodley Head: Vernon Lee and Oscar Wilde in the Yellow Book

      • Margaret Stetz

      Pages 112-122

   3. Duality and Desire in Louis Norbert

      • Patricia Pulham

      Pages 123-142

6. Art and Argument

   1. Performing Pacifism: The Battle between Artist and Author in The Ballet of the Nations

      • Grace Brockington

      Pages 143-159

   2. Plural Anomalies: Gender and Sexuality in Bio-Critical Readings of Vernon Lee

      • Jo Briggs

      Pages 160-173

   3. The Handling of Words: Reader Response Victorian Style

      • Christa Zorn

      Pages 174-192

7. Back Matter

   Pages 193-210

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This, the first collection of essays on the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, offers a wide range of critical writings by scholars. Key works are examined including Euphorion, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories and Music and Its Lovers . New light is shed on Lee's relationships with contemporaries such as Lee-Hamilton, Pater and Wilde.

• aesthetics
• body
• ethics
• gender
• Oscar Wilde
• Victorian era
• British and Irish Literature

'Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics... plays an integral role in reinvigorating the literary reputation of one of the most important late-Victorian women writers.' - Kristin Mahoney, Victorian Studies

'a thoroughly stimulating, cogent, highly readable collection of essays, that will undoubtedly attract further critical attention to one of the most original interdisciplinary thinkers of her generation' - Shafquat Towheed, Nineteenth-Century Literature

'Maxwell and Pulham's joint Introduction sets the agenda with a rich biographical, cultural and critical contextualisation of Lee and her works... Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham as well as Palgrave...are to be commended.' - Matthew Mitton, Women: A Cultural Review

• Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Catherine Maxwell

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Patricia Pulham

LAUREL BRAKE Professor in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JO BRIGGS PhD student at Yale University, USA GRACE BROCKINGTON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, UK DENNIS DENISOFF Ryerson Chair in the English Department and Graduate Programme in Communications and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada STEFANO EVANGELISTA Fitzjames Research Fellow in English at Merton College, Oxford, UK MARGARET D. STETZ Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA CATHERINE ANNE WILEY Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA CHRISTA ZORN Associate Professor of English and Co-ordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA

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