Pater the classicist: classical scholarship, reception, and aestheticism
by Evangelista, Stefano Martindale, Charles Prettejohn, Elizabeth
"Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, …
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- Full title :Pater the classicist : classical scholarship, reception, and aestheticism / edited by Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista, and Elizabeth Prettejohn.
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"Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities, which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian context, among figures such as J.A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study and reception of Classics today."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2017
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
Notes
Outcome of a two-day interdisciplinary workshop entitled "Pater the Classicist" held in 2012 at the University of Bristol -- page v.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 353 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198723417, 0198723415
- oclc:ocn955313259
- LC Classification:PR5136
- Dewey Decimal:824/.8
Table of Contents
Classics and Classicism: Introduction to Part 1 -- Pater as Professional Classicist / Isobel Hurst -- Pater the Translator / Bénédicte Caste -- Pater's 'Winckelmann': Aesthetic Criticism and Classical Reception / Stefano Evangelista, Katherwe Harloe -- Eternal Moment: Pater on the Temporality of the Classical Ideal in Art / Whitney Davis -- Fictions: Introduction to Part 2 -- Tibullus in Marias the Epicurean: or How to Read Pater's Fiction / Duncan Kennedy -- Marcus the Stoic in Marius the Epicurean / Richard Rutherford -- A Search for Home: The Representation of the Domestic in Marius the Epicurean / Shelley Hales -- Reception, Receptivity, and Anachronism in Marius the Epicurean / James I. Porter -- Pater's 'Apollo in Picardy'. The Art of Scholarly Method / Caroline Vout -- Greek Art and Culture: Introduction to Part 3 -- Pater's 'Hippolytus Veiled': A Study from Euripides? / Lene Østerrnark-Johansen -- Hellenic Utopias: Pater in the Footsteps of Pausanias / Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Pater on Sculpture / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Pater and Greek Religion / Robert Fowler -- Philosophy: Introduction to Part 4 -- Pater's Heraclitus: Irony and the Historical Method / Giles Whiteley -- Ani…
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