Sara Lyons
University of Kent
9 Papers
17 Citations
Sara Lyons is an academic researcher from University of Kent. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aestheticism & Human intelligence. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 8 publications.
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The Disenchantment/Re-enchantment of the World: Aesthetics, Secularisation, and the Gods of Greece from Friedrich Schiller to Walter Pater
TL;DR: In this article, a genealogy of Max Weber's claim that modernity is defined by the disenchantment of the world is discussed. But the relationship between Weber's diagnosis and the gods-in-exile theme as variously rendered by Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, and Walter Pater is not discussed.
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Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains
TL;DR: The Woodlanders (1887) and Jude the Obscure (1895) as discussed by the authors are ambivalent responses to the new conception of human intelligence that emerged from Victorian psychology and evolutionary theory and formed the basis of what I describe as the Victorian biopolitics of intelligence.
Recent work in Victorian studies and the bildungsroman
TL;DR: The authors evaluate recent work in Victorian Studies on the Bildungsroman, with particular attention to how scholars negotiate the legacy of Franco Moretti's bravura reading of the form, The Way of the World: The BildungSroman in European Culture (1987).
“You Must Be as Clever as We Think You”: Assessing Intelligence in Henry James’s The Tragic Muse
TL;DR: For instance, the authors describes a group of desk-friends who were uncanny and monstrous through their possession, cultivation, imitation of ledgers, daybooks, double-entry, tall pages of figures, interspaces streaked with oblique ruled lines that weirdly balanced, whatever that might mean, and other like horrors.
Aestheticism and Hellenism
TL;DR: Rigg and Olverson as mentioned in this paper discuss women writers and the dark side of late-Victorian Hellenism, in a book entitled Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorians.
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