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Oxford University Press, USA
The Collected Works of Walter Pater Imaginary Portraits: Volume 3
The Collected Works of Walter Pater Imaginary Portraits: Volume 3
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Imaginary Portraits 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
standards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. Pater's Imaginary Portraits 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
France, 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
affected 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 Imaginary
Portraits had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.
Author: Lene Ostermark-Johansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/03/2019
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780198823438
nineteenth-century writers. Ostermark-Johansen is the author of Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998) and of Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011). She is currently working on a monograph on Pater and portraiture.
standards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. Pater's Imaginary Portraits 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
France, 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
affected 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 Imaginary
Portraits had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.
Author: Lene Ostermark-Johansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/03/2019
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780198823438
About the Author
Lene Ostermark-Johansen, University of Copenhagen
nineteenth-century writers. Ostermark-Johansen is the author of Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998) and of Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011). She is currently working on a monograph on Pater and portraiture.
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