Algernon swinburne and walter pater: victorian aestheticism, doubt and secularisation
Auteur :
Lyons, SarahGlendon
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781909662483
Date de publication :
9 juil. 2015
Dimensions :
24,7 x 17,0 cm
Poids :
766 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the common Victorian assumption that secularisation was a story about rationality, disillusionment, and loss.