... subjectivity, something that is reflected in images and tropes of Roman Catholic ritualism and self-isolation. Unfulfilled desire rises above experience; what is desired is desire itself. art for art’s sake artificiality and sensuality eroticism Dowson Ernest Freeman Nick Moore Arthur perversity ion...

... various modes of transport (buses, trains, bicycles and walking) impact on the journey to and from school, providing a site for character development. The journey also provides for both a greater engagement with the ‘outside’ world and, in some instances, a moment of isolation and contemplation...

... gender’s isolating impact and learned to create community through writing; she observed class’s damaging impact and learned to make her writing more welcoming; and she grasped readers’ generative impact and learned to create mutual writer and reader relationships. Virginia Stephen’s struggle to educate...

... and discover what aspects of the magazine they preferred. Publishing letters where readers shared views and answered one another’s problems kept debates over maternal authority, nannies’ class and education, and social isolation alive and relevant to readers. However, letters to the college magazines tended...

... not the ear; secondly the threat of solipsism in a lyric exchange that had been dubbed by John Stuart Mill, earlier in the century, a ‘soliloquy’. Framed between Mill’s discourse on lyric isolation and the new phenomenological modes that were entering into aesthetics from psychology in the late nineteenth...