The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics - Lee, Vernon
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Violet Paget (1856¿1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1913, ¿The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics¿ is a collection of classic essays by Paget that explore the issue of beauty from a variety of angles, analysing the very nature of beauty and why it is…mehr

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Violet Paget (1856¿1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1913, ¿The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics¿ is a collection of classic essays by Paget that explore the issue of beauty from a variety of angles, analysing the very nature of beauty and why it is enjoyed. Contents include: ¿The Adjective 'Beautiful'¿, ¿Contemplative Satisfaction¿, ¿Aspects Versus Things¿, ¿Sensations¿, ¿Perception of Relations¿, ¿Elements of Shape¿, ¿Facility and Difficulty of Grasping¿, ¿Subject and Object¿, ¿Empathy¿, ¿The Movement of Lines¿, ¿The Character of Shapes¿, etc. Other notable works by this author include: ¿The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative¿ (1883), ¿The Countess of Albany¿ (1884), and ¿Miss Brown¿ (1884). Read & Co. Science is proudly republishing this collection of classic essays now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
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Violet Paget (14 October 1856-13 February 1935) wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Lee. Today, she is well known for her supernatural literature and aesthetic work. She was an early admirer of Walter Pater and authored over a dozen volumes of articles on art, music, and travel. Violet Paget was born in France on October 14, 1856, at Château St Leonard in Boulogne, to British expatriate parents Henry Ferguson Paget and Matilda Lee Hamilton (née Adams). Violet Paget was Eugene Jacob Lee-Hamilton's (1845-1907) half-sister from her mother's first marriage, and she adopted her own pseudonym after his surname.