Rereading Walter Pater

A rereading of the work of Walter Pater, a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture.

Zusammenfassung
In this 1997 book, William F. Shuter shows how Walter Pater attempted to rewrite his own literary and cultural past, and how Pater's later work serves, paradoxically, as a necessary introduction to the earlier. This rereading reveals patterns of continuity and anticipation, and sheds light on Pater and his writings.

Inhalt

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.