Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions - New Perspectives on Walter Pater (Hardcover)

Reflecting Walter 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 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 his 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Among the Victorians and Modernists
Release date:	September 2017
Editors:	Anne Florence Gillard Estrada • Martine Lambert-Charbonnier • Charlotte Ribeyrol
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-08157-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-138-08157-4
Barcode:	9781138081574

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