Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions : New Perspectives on Walter Pater Hardback
Edited by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, Charlotte Ribeyrol
Part of the Among the Victorians and Modernists series
Hardback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 11 Tables, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/09/2017
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- ISBN:9781138081574
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 11 Tables, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138081574
