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Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions

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Reflecting Walter Pater’s diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic features in the works of the Victorian essayist. A revised contextual portrait of Pater in Victorian culture questions representations of the detached aesthete. Current editorial and biographical projects show Pater as fully responsive to the emergence of modern consumer culture and the changes in readership in Britain and the United States. New critical views of rarely studied texts enhance the image of Pater as a cosmopolitan aesthete dialoguing with contemporary culture. Conceptual analysis of his texts brings new light to the aesthetic paradox embodied by Pater, between artistic detachment and immersion in the Heraclitean flux of life. Finally, aestheticism is redefined as proposing new artistic and linguistic synthesis by merging art forms and embracing interart poetics.

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ISBN: 9781138081574
Publication date: 12th September 2017
Author: Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 248 pages
Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
Genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900