"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 twent…
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 twenti…
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, intertexualities, metaphysical positions, …
Reflecting Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readifers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and …
How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian England, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularization? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminat…
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Parleying with Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold: Swinburne and the Drama of Blasphemy -- chapter 2 'Though Hearts Reach Back and Memories Ache': Melancholy, Religious Doubt, and Swinburne's Strenuous Joy -- chapter 3 'A Secular, a Rebellious S…
"How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation' For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illumina…
How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian England, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularization? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminat…
