Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater - Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation - Sarah Glendon Lyons - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd -

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This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the common Victorian assumption that secularisation was a story about rationality, disillusionment, and loss.