Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies Hardback
Edited by Charles (University of Bristol) Martindale, Elizabeth (University of York) Prettejohn, Lene (University of Copenhagen) Østermark-Johansen
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
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Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked.
Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European.
With essays on drama, prose, and poetry, from Shakespeare and Browne, to Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Pater's contemporaries Rossetti and Morris, Appreciations exemplifies ideals of aesthetic criticism formulated in Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873).
Subjectivity pervades Pater's essays on the English authors, while bringing out their exceptional qualities in a manner reaching far into twentieth-century criticism.
This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2023
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- ISBN:9781108835893
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108835893
