Pater the classicist : classical scholarship, reception, and aestheticism / edited by Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista, and Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martindale, Charles, editor.

Evangelista, Stefano, 1974- editor.

Prettejohn, Elizabeth, editor.

Series:

Classical presences

Classical Presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.

Pater, Walter.

Classicists--Great Britain--Biography.

Classicists.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 353 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities, which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian context, among figures such as J.A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study and reception of Classics today."--Jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Classics and Classicism: Introduction to Part 1 31

1 Pater as Professional Classicist / Isobel Hurst Hurst, Isobel 33

2 Pater the Translator / Bénédicte Caste Caste, Bénédicte 47

3 Pater's 'Winckelmann': Aesthetic Criticism and Classical Reception / Stefano Evangelista Evangelista, Stefano, Katherwe Harloe Harloe, Katherwe 63

4 Eternal Moment: Pater on the Temporality of the Classical Ideal in Art / Whitney Davis Davis, Whitney 81

Part 2 Fictions: Introduction to Part 2 101

5 Tibullus in Marias the Epicurean: or How to Read Pater's Fiction / Duncan Kennedy Kennedy, Duncan 103

6 Marcus the Stoic in Marius the Epicurean / Richard Rutherford Rutherford, Richard 121

7 A Search for Home: The Representation of the Domestic in Marius the Epicurean / Shelley Hales Hales, Shelley 135

8 Reception, Receptivity, and Anachronism in Marius the Epicurean / James I. Porter Porter, James I. 149

9 Pater's 'Apollo in Picardy'. The Art of Scholarly Method / Caroline Vout Vout, Caroline 163

Part 3 Greek Art and Culture: Introduction to Part 3 181

10 Pater's 'Hippolytus Veiled': A Study from Euripides? / Lene Østerrnark-Johansen Østerrnark-Johansen, Lene 183

11 Hellenic Utopias: Pater in the Footsteps of Pausanias / Charlotte Ribeyrol Ribeyrol, Charlotte 201

12 Pater on Sculpture / Elizabeth Prettejohn Prettejohn, Elizabeth 219

13 Pater and Greek Religion / Robert Fowler Fowler, Robert 241

Part 4 Philosophy: Introduction to Part 4 259

14 Pater's Heraclitus: Irony and the Historical Method / Giles Whiteley Whiteley, Giles 261

15 Animism and Metaphysics in Pater's Platonism / Lee Behlman Behlman, Lee, Kurt Lampe Lampe, Kurt 275

16 Pater and Nettleship. A Platonic Education and the Politics of Disciplinarity / Daniel Orrells Orrells, Daniel 293

17 The Ethics of Contemplation: Pater's Reading of Aristotle / Adam Lee Lee, Adam 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index.

ISBN:

9780198723417

0198723415

OCLC:

955313259