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A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. Throughout the book the author uses his own experiences of Argentine tango as a case study; one important incentive for social dancing is to have pleasurable and beautiful experiences. This book begins by investigating the methodological causes for why beauty in modernity has been seen to result only from contemplating external objects. It then builds a theory of performative beauty that incorporates findings from new phenomenology neuroaesthetics enactivism and somaesthetics and that reassesses existing inquiries of beauty. The result is an account that identifies kinaesthetic awareness as the point of emergence of both theory and practice of creation (poiesis) and perception (aisthesis) and of moving (agency) and being moved (reception). Performative beauty is the pleasure of being moved by the dance where the dancer feels both as a creative improvisor and as an integrated part of the activity itself. A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty—Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics dance studies performance studies and related fields of artistic research. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

GBP 120.00
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Anselm of Canterbury The Beauty of Theology

Anselm of Canterbury The Beauty of Theology

Anselm is a major figure in theological philosophical and historical studies. This book provides a fresh approach to the study of this great figure; one which provides critical interaction with current critical thinking whilst arguing in favour of the idea of theological unity in Anselm's corpus. Exploring the Proslogion but also more 'minor' works David Hogg interacts with the theological content of Anselm's writings: showing how Anselm's ontological argument fits into the wider context of his theology; comparing the holistic approach of Anselm's thought with that of other medieval personages and fitting him into the wider medieval context; and revealing how Anselm's theology integrates the atonement and questions of predestination the fall of the Devil and free will and other issues. The book concludes with an assessment of the impact of Anselm's theology during his own time and the continuing effect his thinking has had on succeeding centuries of theological development. | Anselm of Canterbury The Beauty of Theology

GBP 175.00
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An Essay on Critical Appreciation

An Essay on Critical Appreciation

First published in 1938 An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication on beauty. This explication is not based merely on emotion but is motivated by contemplation and discrimination. By virtue of being rendered in a discourse an appreciation can claim to be critical or discriminating and ‘beauty’ can be said to have characteristics. The search of such a language takes the author through the contemplation on the meaning of ‘beauty’ entertaining contrary views and reaching at an understanding of the aesthetic situation. This book will be of interest to students of English literature philosophy and art.

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The Aesthetic View of Moral Education

The Aesthetic View of Moral Education

The Aesthetic View of Moral Education is the result of in-depth interdisciplinary research in education and aesthetic studies. This book advocates the use of aesthetic ideas and methods to transform moral education activities which are often trapped in a state of forced indoctrination. This book aims to address the problems of moral education in China and share certain commonalities in the exploration of educational theory. The aesthetic view of moral education is a new and practical philosophy of education. The author's theory of moral education as the appreciation of beauty the creation of beauty and the theory of the attainment of the ultimate realm of moral education provide an in-depth analysis of the functions of aesthetic education for moral cultivation. The author also offers unique interpretations of the aesthetic transformation of the process of moral education itself and the pursuit of the realm of moral life and education. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of education and philosophy East Asian studies and readers interested in China's cultural traditions.

GBP 130.00
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Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design

Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes a thorough look at the process of designing a Japanese garden placing it in a historical and philosophical context. Goto and Naka both academic experts in Japanese garden history and design explore: The themes and usage of the Japanese garden Common garden types such as tea and Zen gardens Key maintenance techniques and issues. Featuring beautiful full-colour images and a glossary of essential Japanese terms this book will dramatically transform your understanding of the Japanese garden as a cultural treasure. | Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design

GBP 175.00
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Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

Rich with illustrations this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority gender seduction (the sexy look the alluring look the glamorous look the vulnerable look) wealth and beauty youth and health and leisure and political hierarchy. Taken together the chapters offer to the student and the general reader a complete semiotics of clothing in a form that is highly readable very entertaining and thoroughly informative. The illustrations provide fascinating glimpses into the history of American fashion and clothing-along with their antecedents in Europe-as well as a fine collection of images from the more familiar world of contemporary America. Rubinstein has identified six distinct categories of dress in American society upon which Dress Codes is based. Clothing signs were instituted by those in authority have one meaning indicate behavior and are required attire (police uniforms or the clothing of ministers and priests); ?clothing symbols on the other hand reflect the achievement of cultural values?wealth beauty you and health. The wearing of clothing symbols?designer clothing or jewelry?may have several meanings; '`'clothing tie-signs ? which are specific types of clothing that indicate membership in a community outside mainstream culture (Hasidic Amish or Hare Krishna attire). They were instituted by those in authority have one meaning they indicate expected behavior and are required attire; ?clothing tie symbols? emanate from hopes fears and dreams of particular groups. They include trendy styles such as hip-hop hippie and gothic. Another category ?contemporary fashion ? reflects consumer sentiments and the political and economic forces of the period. ?Personal dress ? refers to the I component we bring in when dressing the public self (bowtie dramatic or artistic at | Dress Codes Meanings And Messages In American Culture

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The Teaching of Biology A Handbook for Teachers of Junior Classes

The Teaching of Biology A Handbook for Teachers of Junior Classes

First published in 1931 the original blurb reads: A practical handbook for those who are engaged in teaching elementary biology (Nature Study) to children of 10-13 years. Part I is devoted to general methods of teaching the subject. Part II consists of subject matter suitable for lessons together with suggestions as to practical work and classroom procedure. It was hoped that this work would help the move away from the tradition still prevalent at the time where observation of minute details and absence of associated physiological work left the children with little interest in the subject. This book would contribute to a type of teaching where more regard was paid to the ‘livingness’ of the organism resulting in the deepening of the pupil’s enjoyment of the beauty of animate nature. Today it can be read in its historical context. | The Teaching of Biology A Handbook for Teachers of Junior Classes

GBP 90.00
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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt Jessie Fauset Julia Kavanaugh George Edwards some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

GBP 110.00
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Aesthetics A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

Aesthetics A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts fourth edition contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such as painting photography and movies architecture music literature and performance as well as contemporary subjects such as mass art popular arts the aesthetics of the everyday and the natural environment. Essays are drawn from both the analytic and continental traditions and multiple others that bridge this divide between these traditions. Throughout readings are brief accessible for undergraduates and conceptually focused allowing instructors many different syllabi possibilities using only this single volume. Key Additions to the Fourth Edition The fourth edition is expanded to include a total of ninety-six essays with nineteen new essays (nine of them written exclusively for this volume) updated organization into new sections revised introductions to each section an increased emphasis on contemporary topics such as stand-up comedy the architecture of museums interactivity and video games the ethics of sexiness trans/gendered beauty the aesthetics of junkyards and street art pornography and the inclusion of more diverse philosophical voices. Nevertheless this edition does not neglect classic writers in the traditional aesthetics: Plato Aristotle Hume Kant Hegel Heidegger Collingwood Bell and writers of similar status in aesthetics. The philosophers writing new chapters exclusively for this fourth edition are: • Sondra Bacharach on street art • Aili Bresnahan on appreciating dance • Hina Jamelle on digital architecture • Jason Leddington on magic • Sheila Lintott on stand-up comedy • Yuriko Saito on everyday aesthetics • Larry Shiner on art spectacle museums in the twenty-first century • Peg Brand Weiser on how beauty matters • Edward Winters on the feeling of being at home in vernacular architecture as in such urban places as bars. | Aesthetics A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

GBP 105.00
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Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative film and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female and often a warrior hero in her own right. Through a selection of popular culture touchstones this empowerment is questioned as a manipulation of feminist ideals of equality and a continuation of the traditional vision of female awakening centering on issues of personal choice agency physical violence purity and beauty. By investigating re-occurring storytelling frameworks and archetypes Untaming Girlhoods examines different portrayals of girlhoods in the 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American cultural imaginary that configure modern girlhoods beyond the fairy-tale princess or the damsel in distress into refigurations that venture away from the well-trodden path for a new breakaway path to authentic selfhood. This will be a useful and enlightening text for students and researchers in Girlhood Studies Gender Studies Film Studies Popular Culture and Media Studies. | Untaming Girlhoods Storytelling Female Adolescence

GBP 120.00
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The Sound of the English Picturesque Georgian Vocal Music Haydn and Landscape Aesthetics

The Sound of the English Picturesque Georgian Vocal Music Haydn and Landscape Aesthetics

Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap and shows how secular song the glee and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape. Using an interdisciplinary approach Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music and their musical treatment to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth-century music aesthetics and the natural environment this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non-specialists alike. | The Sound of the English Picturesque Georgian Vocal Music Haydn and Landscape Aesthetics

GBP 130.00
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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent serves as a compelling forum for the analysis of ethical cultural social and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include but are not limited to: sexual consent and sexual responsibility; sexual harassment and freedom of speech and association; sexual privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film/literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships. The premier volume deals with a central theme: sexual harassment and sexual consent with emphasis on academia. Theoretical articles research reports editorials and book reviews analyze issues from psychological sociological political and artistic perspectives. Contributions include: Eight Reasons Not to Prohibit Relationships between Professors and Students by Peg Tittle; The Impact of Sexual Misconduct on the Reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. by A. B. Assensoh and Y. Alex-Assensoh; Homosexuality Sexual Harassment and Military Readiness by Deborah E. Kapp and Gary A. Kustis; and College Students' Perceptions of the Relationship between Sex and Drinking by Gwendell W. Gravitt Jr. and Mary M. Krueger. Also included are reviews of Sexual Harassment on Campus edited by B. R. Sandler and R. J. Shoop; Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture by S. B. Ortner; The Power of Beauty by N. Friday; Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America by L. Kipnis; and Mediated Sex by B. McNair. In addition Warren Farrell reviews the film First Wives Club. This initial volume of Sexuality and Culture will be of interest to all those who participate in campus life as well as sociologists psychologists and government and university policymakers.

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History of Cartography

History of Cartography

This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world and to tell us something of their development their makers and printers their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book last appeared finding suitable materials to work from proved to be no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates the book could only be properly reproduced using the original materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made directly from original plates thus allowing the work to preserve the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps collated with other materials help us to elucidate the course of human history. It was not until the eighteenth century however that maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and transformed into plain specialist sources of information based upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical artistic and cultural significance and thus collecting them seems to need no justification simply enjoyment.

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Classical Islam A History 600 A

Classical Islam A History 600 A

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam despite its triumphs on the fields of battle telling its history is the only way open to us to render that essence accessible and show it from all sides. The work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers an interpretation of the world a way of life and a style of thinking that goes far beyond institutional or political supports. The relevance of this historical perspective is beyond dispute. The period from 610 A. D. when Muhammad received his call until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the classical period of Islam. This was the period of the great expansion of Islam both as a political structure and as a religious and intellectual community. It established the base for the development of the high Islamic civilization of North Africa the Near East Persia and India as well as further expansion of the Islamic religious and intellectual community throughout the world. This book presents an authoritative history of the period written by one of the world's leading experts on the subject. Classical Islam examines the relationships both cultural and political between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic social and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interactions with infidels. The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today. | Classical Islam A History 600 A

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Supergrow Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

Supergrow Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar the New York Times Antioch Review Esquire and the Saturday Review. Author Benjamin DeMott discusses everything under the sun-music improving one's sex life violence in Mississippi theater student revolts-but a single theme unifies the material: people ought to use their imaginations more. The book starts from the assumption that our troubles stem from failures of the imagination. Overcome by mass media we are often too oblivious to fresh and original ideas. As DeMott states àthe right use of the constructive imagination increases the effectiveness of our energies enables people to anticipate moves and countermoves prevents them from becoming frozen into postures of intransigence or martyrdom which though possessing a æterrible beauty ' have as their main consequence the stiffening of resistance and the slowing of change. Supergrow is a sociological and political critique of various aspects of everyday life in America one informed by a powerful moral sensibility and an Emersonian sense of self-reliance. DeMott takes pop culture seriously but exhibits a refreshing unwillingness to go with the flow and get caught up in fashionable intellectual fads. Graced with a new introduction by the author Supergrow is an insightful work that is not afraid to tackle difficult subject matter. Whether discussing homosexuality racism popular music or child rearing Supergrow is well-reasoned perceptive and entertaining. As DeMott would hope it will stimulate the imagination. Devastating sustained profoundly witty resounding. New York Times Book Review I didn't think it possible for a long time to come for any writer to say anything about black-and-white relations or lack of them that had freshness and pertinence. I was wrong. Nat Hentoff Village Voice Benjamin DeMott is an essayist novelist and journalist. He was professor of English at Amherst College and a consultant and writer for National Educational Television. He is the author of The Body's Cage Killer Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Gender and Power and You Don't Say available from Transaction. | Supergrow Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

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Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

On April 28 1858 municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City-Plan no. 33 Greensward by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what was to become Central Park was nothing more than a barren expanse occupied by squatters in a matter of a few years Olmsted turned the wasteland into a landscape of coherence elegance and beauty. It not only surpassed the design ingenuity of its existing European counterparts but gained the designer national acclaim in a profession that still lacked a name. Olmsted was an American visionary. He foresaw the day when New York and many other growing cities of the mid-nineteenth century would be plagued by what we presently term urban sprawl. And he was convinced of the critical importance of adapting land for the recreational and contemplative needs of city dwellers before the last remnants of natural terrain were engulfed by monotonous straight streets and piles of erect angular buildings. As a result of his early efforts to revolutionize the design of public parks many cities today are able to preserve the recreational space and greenery within their urban limits. In addition his thoughts and words on wilderness areas still echo across a century of preservation in the wild. This lively and insightful account of his prodigious life features many of his outstanding landscape projects including the Biltmore Estate Prospect Park (Brooklyn) the capitol grounds in Washington DC the Boston Park System the Chicago parks and the Chicago World Fair as well as measures to preserve the natural settings at Niagara Falls Yosemite and the Adirondacks. It traces his early years and describes events that were to form his artistic intellectual and deeply humanistic sensibilities. And it restores this lost American hero to his prominent place in history. In addition to being the acknowledged father of American landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted helped shape the political and philosophical climate of America in his own time and today. Elizabeth Stevenson is the author of the Bancroft Award-winning Henry Adams: A Biography; The Glass Lark a biography of Lafcadio Hearn; and Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression all available from Transaction. | Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Vernon Lee was the chosen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters philosopher psychologist and political activist. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). Full transcriptions of some 2000 letters are arranged in chronological order along with introductions biographical notes and detailed footnotes that explain their context and identify the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. In this third volume covering the years 1890-1896 the 429 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee from the age of thirty-four when she lives with her parents and half-brother the poet and invalid Eugene Lee-Hamilton at Villa Il Palmerino (Florence) to the ripe age of forty when both her parents died and her brother recovered from his illness and decided to leave home. As Lee copes with Eugene’s invalidism and her own physical and psychological ailments we get a view of the practice and teaching of medicine and nursing in Europe in the late 1890s. Lee sponsors her friend’s Amy Turton’s convalescent home and nurses’ training. Mental sciences are at the forefront from experimental psychology psychiatry and neurology to neurophysiology; and in August 1892 Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson attend the Psychological Congress in Paris with speakers Hermann von Helmholtz James Sully Alexander Bain Francis Galton G. Stanley Hall and Amboise-Auguste Liebeault. Lee came to consider herself as a psychologist as much as a philosopher of art and delved more deeply into experimental psychology; and with her partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson she refined a theory of aesthetic empathy and inner mimicry. According to this theory a viewer’s response to a work of art can be measured through his or her physiognomy breathing heartbeats and eye and muscular movements thus providing a scientific basis for an innate appreciation of aesthetic value. They published a synthesis of their work: “Beauty and Ugliness” (The Contemporary Review October-November 1897). While travelling Lee continues to write her travel essays (e. g. Genius Loci: Notes on Places 1899) and her popular supernatural tales. She starts lecturing emulating Eugénie Sellers’s British Museum lectures and her method for attribution and connoisseurship. Her interest in socialism and political economy intensify as her circle widens beyond an aristocratic and society milieux to working-class districts and her collection Althea (1894) shows her interest in ethics moral duties and free-thinking. She indicts the proponents of art for art’s sake. Her discussions about contracts copyright and royalties pirated editions and money matters are intertwined with educational ethics and a concern for the fair recognition of women’s higher education and careers. She becomes involved in the university extension program by giving her first lectures on ancient art and aesthetics in the East End and at Toynbee Hall and her experience of lecturing in London Cambridge Oxford and Rome allows her to meet other intellectuals: Eugénie Sellers Mrs Arthur Strong etc. and new audiences. In 1894 the Affaire Dreyfus (1894–1906) begins revealing the rise of anti-Semitism targeting many of Lee’s close friends also defenders of Dreyfus such as James Darmesteter. After he died Darmesteter’s wife Mary (Robinson) and Lee once again became close to one another. By the time she turned forty Vernon Lee experienced several emotional blows: her friend and mentor Walter Pater died on 30 July 1894. That same year four months later on 14 November 1894 her father died from complications related to asthma Eugene Lee-Hamilton started to recover from chronic illness soon after his stepfather’s death. Eighteen months | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

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