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I entered the churchIt struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead
Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de sile periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past through a haunting portrait, a murdered poets lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato dragging Lees protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lees spurious ghosts was Henry James, who praised her gruesome, gracefulingenious tales, full of imagination.
This new edition includes Lees landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay Faustus and Helena, in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a vitalfluctuatingpotent force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worths contextual introduction, drawing upon Lees newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic.
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Author: Vernon Lee, Aaron Worth
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/22/2022
Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780198837541
Language: English
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