Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales

In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee''s own definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings questions the nature of the ''genuine ghost'', and argues that this figure is not found ...