Bøger af Vernon Lee

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Ariadne In Mantua: A Romance In 5 Acts (1906) is a novel written by Lee, Vernon. The book is set in the city of Mantua, Italy, during the early 16th century. The story revolves around the life of Ariadne, a young woman who is forced to marry a man she does not love. She is deeply in love with another man, but her family and society do not approve of their relationship. The novel follows Ariadne's journey as she navigates her way through the challenges of her marriage and her forbidden love affair.The book is divided into five acts, each of which represents a different stage in Ariadne's life. The first act introduces the readers to Ariadne and her family, as well as her lover. The second act focuses on her wedding and the challenges she faces in her new life. The third act is about her growing love for her lover and the risks she takes to be with him. The fourth act is the climax of the story, where Ariadne's secrets are revealed, and she must face the consequences of her actions. The final act is the resolution of the story, where Ariadne must make a difficult decision about her future.The novel is a classic romance that explores themes of love, duty, and society's expectations. The author's vivid descriptions of the city of Mantua and its people bring the story to life. The book is a timeless tale of a woman's struggle to find happiness in a world that tries to control her every move.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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I HAVE tried in this little volume to explain aesthetic preference, particularly as regards visible shapes, by the facts of mental science. But my explanation is addressed to readers in whom I have no right to expect a previous knowledge of psychology, particularly in its more modern developments. I have therefore based my explanation of the problems of aesthetics as much as possible upon mental facts familiar, or at all events easily intelligible, to the lay reader. Now mental facts thus available are by no means the elementary processes with which analytical and, especially experimental, psychology has dealings. They are, on the contrary, the everyday, superficial and often extremely confused views which practical life and its wholly unscientific vocabulary present of those ascertained or hypothetical scientific facts. I have indeed endeavoured (for instance in the analysis of perception as distinguished from sensation) to impart some rudiments of psychology in the course of my aesthetical explanation, and I have avoided, as much as possible, misleading the reader about such fearful complexes and cruxes as memory, association and imagination. But I have been obliged to speak in terms intelligible to the lay reader, and I am fully aware that these terms correspond only very approximately to what is, or at present passes as, psychological fact. I would therefore beg the psychologist (to whom I offer this little volume as a possible slight addition even to his stock of facts and hypotheses) to understand that in speaking, for instance, of Empathy as involving a thought of certain activities, I mean merely that whatever happens has the same result as if we thought; and that the processes, whatever they may be (also in the case of measuring, comparing and co-ordinating), translate themselves, when they are detected, into thoughts; but that I do not in the least pre-judge the question whether the processes, the "thoughts," the measuring, comparing etc. exist on subordinate planes of consciousness or whether they are mainly physiological and only occasionally abutting in conscious resultants. Similarly, lack of space and the need for clearness have obliged me to write as if shape-preference invariably necessitated the detailed process of ocular perception, instead of being due, as is doubtless most often the case, to every kind of associative abbreviation and equivalence of processes.

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Ottilie: An Eighteenth Century Idyl is a novel written by Vernon Lee and published in 1893. The story is set in the 18th century and follows the life of Ottilie, a young woman who is forced to marry a man she does not love. Despite her unhappy marriage, Ottilie finds solace in her love for music and art. She becomes friends with a group of artists who introduce her to new ideas and ways of thinking. Through her interactions with this group, Ottilie begins to question the traditional roles of women in society and the constraints placed upon them. The novel explores themes of love, freedom, and individuality in the context of a society that values conformity and obedience. Lee's writing style is descriptive and lyrical, evoking the beauty and elegance of the 18th century. Overall, Ottilie: An Eighteenth Century Idyl is a thought-provoking and engaging novel that offers a glimpse into the lives of women in the past and their struggles for autonomy and self-expression.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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In need of a well-paying commission, a painter agrees to make portraits of William and Alice Okehurst, a wealthy English couple. At their rural estate, he becomes unsettled by William's jealousy and Alice's uncanny resemblance to an ancestor from the 17th century. A Phantom Lover is a story of supernatural horror by Vernon Lee.

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Novellesamlingen Hjemsøgelser(1889) består af de fire noveller Amour Dure, Dionea, Oke af Okehurst og En grusom stemme. Alle fire handler om overnaturlige hændelser – spøgelser, besættelser og gudinder – men afspejler også tydeligt Lees viden og interesser inden for kunst, arkitektur og køn. Novellerne er i sig selv eksempler på Lees empatiske æstetikbegreb: De stemningsfulde og detaljerige tekster fremmaner så levende historier at de manifesterer sig som kropslige oplevelser hos læseren – lige fra den snigende rædsels kuldegysninger til afslappet velbehag. Lee har arbejdet bevidst med denne teknik og gør det mesterligt.Bag pseudonymet Vernon Lee gemmer sig den britiske forfatter Violet Page (1856-1935), der var en markant skikkelse blandt europæiske intellektuelle omkring forrige århundredeskifte. Lee levede størstedelen af sit liv i Sydeuropa og var en spektakulær personlighed: En autoritet inden for italiensk renæssancekunst, erklæret feminist og pacifist, klædt i herretøj og en højt respekteret skønlitterær forfatter.Lees forfatterskab omfatter værker inden for kunsthistorie, kunstteori, feminisme, rejselitteratur og skønlitteratur. Blandt andet formulerede Lee på det kunstteoretiske område sammen med sin partner Kit Anstruther-Thomson et yderst fremsynet æstetisk begreb kaldet empatisk æstetik. Lee gik i glemmebogen efter at have mistet indflydelse og anseelse i kølvandet på Første Verdenskrig på grund af sin erklærede pacifisme, men både det empatiske æstetikbegreb, der fokuserer på kropslige oplevelser af kunst, og Lees skønlitteratur har siden 1990erne været genstand for fornyet interesse.