Aesthetic Truths of the Fiabesque: Vernon Lee’s Venice
While living in Venice, Italy in the 1880s, the Victorian writer and aesthetic philosopher Vernon Lee began formulating what would become her definition of the genius loci, or “spirit of places”: a divinity sacred to “the substance of our heart and mind” (5), who constitutes a geographical area’...
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Bucharest University Press
2018-06-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TauraNapier.pdf |