Exciting news – Colton Valentine’s Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose is now published as part of the Modern Humanities Research Association’s Jewelled Tortoise series!

With this volume, Valentine offers every reader no small gift: the chance to encounter Vernon Lee afresh. His sixteen translations, faithful to Lee’s distinctive style, reveal a side of her both familiar and new, yet wholly in her element – a polyglot equally at ease crossing borders and disciplines. The multilingual bibliography accompanying the texts is an indispensable point of reference for scholars and further testifies to Lee’s far-reaching influence.

The breadth of the selection speaks for itself:

The Adventures of a Coin
English Novelists
On the Need for Aesthetic Culture in Italy
George Eliot
The Ethics of Aesthetics
Paul Bourget
Women as Citizens
Pedagogy and Psychology
Regarding the Novel A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
After the Disaster in Sicily and Calabria
The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
Anglo-German Reconciliation?
Dissident Minorities
Letters of an Englishwoman and a Frenchman on Current Affairs
On Civic Combativeness
The Problems and Methods of Empirical Aesthetics

Read more in the MHRA blog interview with Valentine, and order the volume here.