Rereading Walter Pater

by William F. Shuter

Overview

Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. William F. Shuter shows that Pater authorized rereadings of his work in an effort to rewrite his own literary and cultural past. Drawing on unpublished manuscript material, Shuter shows how Pater's later work can serve, paradoxically, as an introduction to the earlier. Such a rereading of Pater's work uncovers patterns of continuity and anticipation that decisively alter our understanding of Pater and his writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521019811
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2005
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , #9
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: an initial reading; 1. The periegetic critic and the imaginative sense of place; 2. The retrojective apologist; 3. Heraclitus, Hegel, and Plato; 4. The dubious academic; 5. Visiting the dead; Conclusion: rereading, revising, and reshuffling.

Editorial Reviews

"...Shuter's book makes a solid contribution to Pater scholarship. ...Shuter's effort to bring newly available material to bear on well-known texts points to valuable avenues for future research." Matthew Potolsky, Victorian Studies

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