Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781108835893 |
ISBN10: | 1108835899 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 300 pages |
Size: | 235x159x23 mm |
Weight: | 620 g |
Language: | English |
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Category:
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 9 November 2023
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Short description:
The first collected study of Pater's significance to criticism, revealing his pivotal role in establishing principles of the literary essay.
Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction: Pater and english literature Charles Martindale and Elizabeth Prettejohn; Introduction to Part I: Part I. General: 1. 'Of the true family of Montaigne': appreciations and the essay tradition in english literature Kenneth Daley; 2. Unravelling Pater's english poet: the imaginary portrait as criticism Lene &&&216;stermark-Johansen; 3. Pater's Montaigne and the selfish reader Fergus McGhee; 4. Studies in European literature: Pater's cosmopolitan criticism Stefano Evangelista; 5. The 'Postscript' Ross Wilson; 6. Form, matter, and metaphysics in Walter Pater's essay on 'Style' Michael D. Hurley; 7. Walter Pater, second-hand stylist Scarlett Baron; Introduction to Part II: Part II. Individual authors: early moderns, romantics, contemporaries: 8. Pater's Shakespeare Alex Wong; 9. Pater and the quaintness of seventeenth-century english prose Kathryn Murphy; 10. 'Spiritual Form': Walter Pater's encounters with William Blake Luisa Cal&&&232;; 11. Pater on Coleridge and Wordsworth Charles W. Mahoney; 12. Walter Pater, Charles Lamb and 'the value of reserve' Stacey McDowell; 13. Poetry in dilution: Pater, Morris and the future of english Marcus Waithe;14. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his school Elizabeth Prettejohn; Postscript Stephen Bann; Walter Pater and english studies: a select bibliography; Index.