{"product_id":"the-collected-works-of-walter-pater-imaginary-portraits-volume-3-9780198823438","title":"The Collected Works of Walter Pater Imaginary Portraits: Volume 3","description":"\u003cem\u003eImaginary Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e is Volume 3 in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for its own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new\u003cbr\u003estandards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePater's \u003cem\u003eImaginary Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e are among some of the most stylish and original pieces of short fiction in Victorian literature: portrayals of a series of handsome male protagonists across the ages of European history, set against a range of evocative European backdrops from Classical Greece to Medieval\u003cbr\u003eFrance, eighteenth-century Germany and modern England. Together, they constitute a remarkable testimony to Pater's profound understanding of centuries of cultural history, reworked in the hybrid genre of the imaginary portrait as sophisticated portrait miniatures of minor characters touched and\u003cbr\u003eaffected by major moments in European history. They question central issues of nationhood and belonging, a Pan-European cultural identity, and the fate of the individual in the face of collective history. As formative texts for Modernist writers like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf, Pater's \u003cem\u003eImaginary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortraits\u003c\/em\u003e had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lene Ostermark-Johansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198823438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLene Ostermark-Johansen, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Copenhagen\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLene Ostermark-Johansen teaches English art and literature at the University of Copenhagen and is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. She has a long-standing interest in word-image relations and has published extensively on Walter Pater and a range of other late\u003cbr\u003enineteenth-century writers. Ostermark-Johansen is the author of \u003cem\u003eSweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England\u003c\/em\u003e (1998) and of \u003cem\u003eWalter Pater and the Language of Sculpture\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). She is currently working on a monograph on Pater and portraiture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40287227347059,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":149.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_488e2a67-fd12-4979-9ef5-ed22b41c92a9.jpg?v=1658236204","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-collected-works-of-walter-pater-imaginary-portraits-volume-3-9780198823438","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}