{"product_id":"hauntings-and-other-fantastic-tales-paperback","title":"Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVernon Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCatherine Maxwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePatricia Pulham\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A veritable Italy of the mind.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eRegenia Gagnier, University of Exeter\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to \u003cem\u003eHauntings\u003c\/em\u003e, \"My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.\" First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in \u003cem\u003eHauntings \u003c\/em\u003eand three others, enables readers to consider Lee's work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian \u003cem\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee's predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee's brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Maxwell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Reader in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Pulham\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth. They are the editors of \u003cem\u003eVernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.47 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167454662791,"sku":"9781551115788","price":51.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/hauntings-and-other-fantastic-tales-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}