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Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence

Beschreibung

This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection interrogating the writings of the writer and public intellectual Vernon Lee (1856-1935) on intelligence. It brings together 13 academics from the UK, Europe, Australia, China, and North America and from disciplines including literature, philosophy, history and cultural studies, to examine Lee s writing (both creative and critical) on intelligence and its implications for the future. Drawing inspiration from Lee s Proteus, or the Future of Intelligence (1925), chapter authors examine Lee s harnessing of intelligence as both concept and process in areas as diverse as material culture, the built environment, gender, ethics and values, ecology, non-violent pacifism, and science. In doing so, they showcase the astonishing prescience and relevance of much of Lee s writing for us in the 21st century.

Autor

Sally Blackburn-Daniels is a Research Fellow at Teeside University, UK. They are a founding member of the International Vernon Lee Society (2014) and is currently a Vice-President of the IVLS, having previously served as its Communications Officer.

Shafquat Towheed is Director of Research in the School of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at The Open University, UK, where he also directs the OpenARC Research Centre and the History of Books and Reading research group. He is a Vice-President and founding member of the International Vernon Lee Society (IVLS) and is currently Vice President of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). His most recent publication (with Corinna Norrick-Rühl) is Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022).

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032156594
• Artikelnr.: 76006861