Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts [Hardcover]

The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. 'True aesthetic criticism' takes place working across the arts, Pater insists: acknowledging the differences between media, but?seeking possibilities of interconnection.List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Aesthetic Life: Thinking Across the Arts and the Senses; E.Clements & L.Higgins PART I: PATER?AND?CONTEMPORARY VISUALITIES Art and the Museum; J.Siegel Pater and Contemporary Visual Art; J.B.Bullen The 'Necessity' of Corot and Whistler in Pater's 'Network' of Painters; L.Higgins Critical Connections and Quotational Strategies: Allegory and Aestheticism in Pater and Simeon Solomon; C.Cruise PART II: PATER?AND?THE?DYNAMIC ARTS Pater's Auxerre Tapestry; K.Daley Sculpture, Style and Pater's Imaginative Sense of Touch; L. ?stermark-Johansen The Painting as Physical Object in a Verbal Portrait: Pater's 'A Prince of Court Painters' and Wilde's 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.'; N.Kelvin Walter Pater, Film Theorist; C.Williams Pater's Musical Imagination: The Aural Architecture of 'The School of Giorgione' and Marius the Epicurean ; E.Clements Haunted Stages: Walter Pater and the 'Theatrical Mode of Life'; A.Eastham PART III:?PATER?AND THE?PRACTICE OF?WRITING Pater's Politics; M.Potolsky The Limitations of Schilleresque Self-Culture in Pater's Individualist Aesthetics; K.Hext The Art of the Novel: Pater and Fiction; L.Brake Bibliography Index

' Victorian Aesthetic Conditions does more than bring together some of today's top scholars in Pater studies. By conceiving of Walter Pater as a fulcrum for hybridic conceptions of art, aesthetics, and culture, the interwoven chapters present Pater and Victorian society in ways we've never seen before. This insightful, vibrant collection is destined to become required reading for all of us working in the field.' - Dennls)