The Lifted Veil | Essays and Criticism
- Theme of Clairvoyance
In the following essay, the author discusses the ‘‘curse’’ of clairvoyance in ‘‘The Lifted Veil.’’
- The Centre and the Margins in The Lifted Veil and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
In the following essay, the author interprets ‘‘The Lifted Veil’’ in light of the ‘‘transcendent ego’’ standard of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine as well as the magazine’s treatment of such character types as the spasmodic poet and the uncertain scientist.
- Vague Capricious Memories: The Lifted Veil’s Challenge to Wordsworthian Poetics
In the following essay, the author sees ‘‘The Lifted Veil’’ as demonstrating the ‘‘failures and delusions of memory,’’ a challenge to ‘‘Wordsworth’s assertion of recollection as the foundation of both poetry and human community.’’
- Born Again: Reviving Bertha Grant
In the following essay, the author re-evaluates Bertha Grant as the product of Latimer’s creative interpretation of her as woman as subject.’’
- The Painful Challenge of George Eliot’s Epigraph
In the following essay, the author describes the important character of Latimer as a masochist attempting to change by going ‘‘into the sadism’’ that dominates him.
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