Walter Pater and the beginnings of English studies / edited by Charles Martindale, Lene Østermark-Johansen, Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martindale, Charles, editor.

Østermark-Johansen, Lene, 1963- editor.

Prettejohn, Elizabeth, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 144.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 144

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894--Criticism and interpretation.

Pater, Walter.

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894--Influence.

Criticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Contents:

Introduction : Pater and English literature / Charles Martindale and Elizabeth Prettejohn

"Of the true family of Montaigne" : appreciations and the essay tradition in English literature / Kenneth Daley

Unraveling Patert's English poet : the imaginary portrait as criticism / Lene Østermark-Johansen

Pater's Montaigne and the selfish reader / Fergus McGhee

Studies in European literature : Pater's cosmopolitan criticism / Stefano Evangelista

The "postscript" / Ross Wilson

Form, matter, and metaphysics in Walter Pater's essay on "style" / Michael D. Hurley

Walter Pater, second-hand stylist / Scarlett Baron

Pater's Shakespeare / Alex Wong

Pater and the quaintness of seventeenth-century English prose / Kathryn Murphy

"Spiritual form" : Walter Pater's encounters with William Blake / Luisa Calè

Pater on Coleridge and Wordsworth / Charles W. Mahoney

Walter Pater, Charles Lamb, and "the value of reserve" / Stacey McDowell

Poetry in dilution : Pater, Morris, and the future of English / Marcus Waithe

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his school / Elizabeth Prettejohn

Postscript / Stephen Bann.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108872522

1108872522

9781108875691

1108875696

9781108869447

1108869440