... Smith Vernon Lee In this chapter, I examine the role that fellow feeling plays in Ford Madox Ford’s final Tietjens novel, Last Post (1928). Like many other exemplars of high modernism, Ford’s novel circulates between various characters’ minds, revealing multiple inner monologues...

...The Conclusion focuses on the delicate balance between investment in Italy and disenchantment with the Risorgimento’s outcome in the period following official Italian unification in 1861. Late nineteenth-century writers like Henry James and Vernon Lee step back from Risorgimento politics...

... reading speeds; on the other, they profoundly affected how readers began to perceive the printed word: no longer as static marks on the page but giving ‘the impression of movement’, which in turn was conceived ‘in proportion’ to how it ‘moved’ the reader. By focusing on experiments by Vernon Lee, Gertrude...

...Chapter Four, “Empathy and Violence in the Works of Ford Madox Ford,” uses the first work on aesthetic empathy in Britain, that of Vernon Lee and T. E. Hulme, to read Ford’s novels The Good Soldier (1915) and A Man Could Stand Up– (1926). This chapter suggests...

... Swinburne A C Matz Jesse Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics Arthur Symons Jonathan Crary Bernard Berenson Vernon Lee Impressionism Phenomenology Ernest Dowson The threat of isolation outlined in the previous chapter might seem particularly relevant to Decadent lyric poetry. Paul...