1st Edition
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions New Perspectives on Walter Pater
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bénédicte Coste, Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, Charlotte Ribeyrol
Part I: Pater’s Modern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches
1 Walter Pater and the new Media: the "child" in the house, Laurel Brake
2 Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected Works,
Lesley Higgins and David Latham
3 Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: are there different Paters?
Martine Lambert-Charbonnier
Part II: Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture
4 Trace, race and grace: The influence of Ernest Renan’s Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse on Pater’s Gaston de Latour
Adam Lee
5 The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George Eliot
Thomas Albrecht
6 A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater’s "Sir Thomas Browne" and its Nineteenth-Century British Context
Daichi Ishikawa
Part III: Modern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire and Artistic Detachment
7 "What an interesting period… is this we are in!" Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the "Aesthetic Life"
Joseph Bristow
8 A Dialectical History of the Subject of Same-Sex Desire: Queer Conclusions
Michael F. Davis
9 "Unimpassioned Passion’: Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater’s Rhetoric of Affect
Nicholas Manning
Part IV: Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait
10 "What came of him?" Change and Continuity in Pater’s Portraits
Lene Østermark-Johansen
11 Walter Pater’s Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in "Coleridge’s Writings" and "Sebastian van Storck"
Kit Andrews
12 Reading the Mona Lisa
Pascal Aquien
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at Rouen University. Her research and teaching interests include British literature, art criticism, and painting of the 1860s–1890s.
Martine Lambert-Charbonnier is Associate Professor at the University of Sorbonne-Paris 4. Her field of research focuses on late-nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics in England, and especially on Walter Pater.
Charlotte Ribeyrol is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century English literature at the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Marie Curie Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford (2016–2018).
"Those attempting to analyse Pater need to be able to write with clarity and precision themselves [...] this is achieved throughout the volume [...] Both the editors and the contributors deserve praise for producing a volume in which a master of literary style has been written about with both insight and elegance."
- James Downs, University of Exeter, BAVS Newsletter
