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SYMHC Classics: Vernon Lee

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Sense of Beauty and Ugliness

In 18 92, she wrote the story that finally put the nail in the coffin of her friendship with henry james. It was called lady tall and it came out in a collection called vanatas polite stories. Lady tal included a transparent and unflattering fictionalization of him. He heard about it, decided he would rather not know, and that he was done. Vernon lee and kit anstrother thompson also worked ther on a theory of aesthetics at the end of the nineteenth century. Was rooted in the idea that these physical responses are the work of a person's body subconsciously mimicking or living through what you're seeing in the art.

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