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 established and younger scholars reflecting the diversity of Lee's own interests. Key works are examined including Euphorion, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories, Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady, Louis Norbert, The Ballet of the Nations, The Handling of Words and Music and Its Lovers and new light is shed on Lee's relationships with contemporaries such as Lee-Hamilton, Pater, Wilde and Berenson.