Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies

Author: Charles Martindale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1108875696

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This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism and comprehensively contextualises his work. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Walter Pater
Walter Pater

Author: Wolfgang Iser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780521179287

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Within this text, first published in German in 1960, the influential German literary scholar Wolfgang Iser writes engagingly of Pater's aesthetic.

Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher:

Published: 1873

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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Pater's first major work, a study of kindred spirits in love of beauty. Criticized as a "demoralizing moralizer".--Jim Kepner ; Oscar Wilde's favorite book by Pater (Greif, p. 157) ; Includes essays on Pico della Mirandola, Michelangelo, da Vinci and Winckelmann.

Selected Writings of Walter Pater
Selected Writings of Walter Pater

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780231054812

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Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies, and Sketches and Reviews, as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthetician and literary critic of Victorian England, brought his powerful imagination to bear on a wide range of subjects: from the drama of Euripides to the painters of the Renaissance, from the Romantic poets to the pre-Raphaelites, from Plato to Oscar Wilde. In the twentieth century, Pater's theories of art and literature exerted a strong inluence on the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens.

Walter Pater
Walter Pater

Author: Kate Hext

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0748683585

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Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging moder

Oscar Wilde in Context
Oscar Wilde in Context

Author: Kerry Powell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1107016134

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Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.