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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface; 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 Østermark-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 Calè; 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.
