Vernon Lee - Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

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.

LAUREL BRAKE Professor in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JO BRIGGS PhD student at Yale University, USA GRACE BROCKINGTON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, UK DENNIS DENISOFF Ryerson Chair in the English Department and Graduate Programme in Communications and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada STEFANO EVANGELISTA Fitzjames Research Fellow in English at Merton College, Oxford, UK MARGARET D. STETZ Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA CATHERINE ANNE WILEY Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA CHRISTA ZORN Associate Professor of English and Co-ordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA