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Abstract: Vernon Lee wrote an anti-imperial allegory, Satan the Waster , during and after World War I. She also composed a decadent ghost story in the 1880s that took aim at English global hegemony. This tale, "Oke of Okehurst; Or, The Phantom Lover," roots for its heroine Alice, who deviates from elite English norms and seems to welcome imperial decline. Lee traces a common thread from "Oke of Okehurst" to Satan the Waster : from a private, prophetic implosion of the family and its imperialist pretensions in the 1880s to a public, culminating implosion of nationalist progress narratives in the teens of the next century.
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