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1 online resource (224 pages) : 11 tables and 6 halftones |
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Among the Victorians and Modernists |
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Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions- Front Cover; Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; PART I: Pater's Modern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches; Chapter 1: Walter Pater and the New Media: The "Child" in the House; Introduction; Pater's Patterns of Publication; Pater's Writing and Contemporary Publishing Mores; Pater and the Journals: Three Case Studies; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 2: Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected WorksNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: Are There Different Paters?; Pater's Vision of Biography and the Notion of Habit; From Habit to Habitus and Figuration; Contrasting Images of the Aesthete; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; PART II: Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture; Chapter 4: Trace, Race and Grace: The Influence of Ernest Renan's Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse on Pater's Gaston de Latour; Notes; Bibliography |
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Chapter 5: The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George EliotNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater's "Sir Thomas Browne" and its Nineteenth-Century British Context; Notes; Bibliography; PART III: Modern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire, and Artistic Detachment; Chapter 7: "What an interesting period ... is this we are in!": Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the "Æsthetic Life"; "The Æsthetic Life": The Folios; Aesthetic Experience Contra "Philosophy ... turned suicidal." |
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"The supposed son of the age": Pater's Metropolitan Aesthete"Everywhere ... he will seek the face of man": Embodying the Living Aesthete; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Walter Pater's Dialectical History of (Same-Sex) Desire: Queer Conclusions; Thesis: The Medieval Culture of Desire; Antithesis: The Return of the Repressed; The Synthesis of the Subject of Desire; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9: "Unimpassioned Passion": Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater's Rhetoric of Affect; Rupture Within the Aesthetic; Pater's Interior Emotional Truth |
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Passionate Confinement: The Limits of the Feeling SubjectAgainst Affective Adequation; Notes; Bibliography; PART IV: Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait; Chapter 10: "What came of him?": Change and Continuity in Pater's Portraits; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 11: Walter Pater's Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in "Coleridge's Writings" and "Sebastian van Storck"; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 12: Reading the Mona Lisa; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Reflecting Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic features in the works of the Victorian essayist. A revised contextual portrait of Walter Pater in Victorian culture questions representations of the detached aesthete. Current editorial and biographical projects show Pater as fully responsive to the emergence of modern consumer culture and the changes in readership in Britain and the United States. New critical views of rarely studied texts enhance the image of Pater as a cosmopolitan aesthete dialoguing with contemporary culture. Conceptual analysis of Pater's texts brings new light to the aesthetic paradox embodied by Pater, between artistic detachment and immersion in the Heraclitean flux of life. Finally, aestheticism is redefined as proposing new artistic and linguistic synthesis by merging art forms and embracing interart poetics |
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Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 19th Century.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lambert-Charbonnier, Martine
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Ribeyrol, Charlotte
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| ISBN |
9781315103525 |
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1315103524 |
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