Vernon Lee and the Victorian Aesthetic Movement: "Feminine Souls" and Shifting Sites of Contest.
Nineteenth-Century Prose 1999, Fall, 26, 2
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Victorian aesthetic theories offered an alternative to the traditional agonistic discourse associated with the male-dominated public domain. However, those writings established sites of contest that ironically reinscribed "masculine" power within the "feminine" aesthetic realm. **********
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