UID:
almahu_9949880479302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781351595322
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1351595326
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9781315103525
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1315103524
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9781351595339
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1351595334
Series Statement:
Among the Victorians and Modernists ; 4
Content:
Reflecting Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readifers 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 modifern consumer culture and the changes in readifership 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.
Note:
Chapter Introduction /
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part PART I Pater's Modifern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches --
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chapter 1 Walter Pater and the New Media: The 2Child3 in the House /
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chapter 2 Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected Works /
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chapter 3 Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: Are There Different Paters? /
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part PART II Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture --
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chapter 4 Trace, Race and Grace: The Influence of Ernest Renan's Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse on Pater's Gaston de Latour /
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chapter 5 The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George Eliot /
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chapter 6 A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater's 2Sir Thomas Browne3 and its Nineteenth-Century British Context /
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part PART III Modifern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire, and Artistic Detachment --
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chapter 7 2What an interesting period ... is this we are in!3: Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the 2Aesthetic Life3 /
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chapter 8 Walter Pater's Dialectical History of (Same-Sex) Desire: Queer Conclusions /
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chapter 9 2Unimpassioned Passion3: Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater's Rhetoric of Affect /
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part PART IV Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait --
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chapter 10 2What came of him?3: Change and Continuity in Pater's Portraits /
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chapter 11 Walter Pater's Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in 2Coleridge's Writings3 and 2Sebastian van Storck3 /
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chapter 12 Reading the Mona Lisa /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Testing new opinions and courting new impressions New York : Routledge, 2017 ISBN 9781138081574
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315103525
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