| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Walter Pater's European Imagination -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Imaginary Portrait -- Foregrounds and Backgrounds -- PART I. FOREGROUNDS -- 1.Type and Individual -- The Diaphanous Self -- 'The Transmutation of Ideas into Images': Leonardo -- Francis Galton's Composite Portraits and 'The Child in the House' -- 2. Life-Writing -- Pater's Brief Lives -- English Men of Letters and English Poets: The Literary Portrait -- Marcel Schwob, the Modernists, and the New Biography -- 3. Narrating the Self -- The Diary Form and Fiction: 'A Prince of Court Painters' -- The Speaking Portrait -- The Secret Diary: 'Sebastian van Storck' -- 4. Character and Caricature -- Character, Tragedy, and Ekphrasis -- Oxford Characters -- Caricaturing Mr Rose -- PART II. BACKGROUNDS -- 5. The Poetics of Space: From Rooms to Cathedrals -- At Home or Chez Soi: From 'The Child in the House' to a Visit to Montaigne -- The Aesthetic Interior: Living Up to One's Blue China -- From the Reliquary to the Cathedral -- 6. The Poetics of Place: Mapping Pater's Europe -- The Idea of Europe -- At Home and Abroad: Travelling with Murray's Handbook to France -- France within Europe -- 7. The Poetics of Time: Pater and History -- Walter Scott, Walter Pater, and the Collective Memory -- Jules Michelet: Renaissance, Revolution, and Resurrection -- Modernity: Youth, Bildung, and Maturity -- Bibliography -- 1. Manuscripts -- 2. Printed Primary and Secondary Material -- Index |
| Summary |
"Walter Pater’s European Imagination addresses Pater’s literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater’s short pieces of fiction, the so-called ‘imaginary portraits’, trace the development of the European self over a period of some two thousand years. They include elements of travelogue and art criticism, together with discourses on myth, history, and philosophy, and are not easily classified. With settings ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century England, they engage with the visual arts and operate pictorially in a series of receding planes of frame, foreground, and background. Examining Pater’s methods of composition, use of narrative voice, and construction of character, the book draws on all of Pater’s oeuvre and includes discussions of a range of his unpublished manuscripts, essays, and reviews. It engages with Pater’s dialogue with the visual portrait and problematizes the oscillation between type and individual, the generic and the particular, which characterizes both the visual and the literary portrait. Exploring Pater’s involvement with nineteenth-century historiography and collective memory, the book positions Pater’s fiction solidly within such nineteenth-century genres as the historical novel and the Bildungsroman, while also discussing the portraits as specimens of biographical writing. As the ‘Ur-texts’ from which generations of modernist life-writing developed, Pater’s ‘imaginary portraits’ became pivotal for such modernist writers as Virginia Woolf and Harold Nicolson, and Walter Pater’s European Imagination explores such twentieth-century successors, together with French precursors like Sainte-Beuve and followers like Marcel Schwob"--Publisher's description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on August 24, 2023) |
| Subject |
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Appreciation -- Europe
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| SUBJECT |
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894. fast (OCoLC)fst00043969 |
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European literature -- History and criticism
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Literature.
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Europe -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045784
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0191949361 |
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9780191949364 |
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9780192674692 |
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0192674692 |
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9780192674685 |
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0192674684 |
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