Vernon Lee

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.

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Vernon Lee Chronology Introduction; C. Maxwell & P. Pulham CREATIVE CONNECTIONS Vernon Lee and Eugene Lee-Hamilton; C. Maxwell Vernon Lee and the Pater Circle; L. Brake DECADENT DISSOLUTIONS 'Warming Me Like a Cordial': The Ethos of the Body in Vernon Lee's Aesthetics; C. A. Wiley Vernon Lee, Decadent Contamination and the Productivist Ethos; D. Denisoff QUEER CONTEXTS Vernon Lee and the Gender of Aestheticism; S. Evangelista The Snake Lady and the Bruised Bodley Head: Vernon Lee and Oscar Wilde in the Yellow Book ; M. D. Stetz Duality and Desire in Louis Norbert ; P. Pulham ART AND ARGUMENT Performing Pacifism: The Battle between The Artist and Author in The Ballet of the Nations ; G. Brockington Plural Anomalies: Gender and Sexuality in Bio-Critical Readings of Vernon Lee; J. Briggs The Handling of Words : Reader Response Victorian Style; C. Zorn Bibliography Index