Vernon Lee

This book is the first full-scale exploration of the fiction of one of the most influential women writing in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Lee's work was well-admired in her own day, her fiction and her writings on aesthetics, 'The Woman in Question' and psychology appeared anachronistic to later twentieth-century audiences. The recent upsurge of interest in the culture of the fin de si'ecle and lesbian Modernist writing has assured Lee a well-deserved critical resurrection and this book explores her ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf. A belle-lettriste, a self-consciously Continental intellectual and a pacifist, Lee's changing authorial masks doubly participate and anticipate the wider shift from Victorian earnestness to Modernist play marking British letters over the course of fifty years. Ultimately, however, Lee emerges as an increasingly isolated

Author: Sondeep Kandola
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 01/01/2011
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780746311769

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 259