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OverviewThis title explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging modernity in Britain. It also considers the dynamics between form and thought at the fin de siecle, contextualizing its comments in terms of Matthew Arnold, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee and others, to offer a fully integrated account of the intellectual cultures and currents in this period. It boldly reassesses Pater's intellectual significance, arguing that he self-consciously poised on the cusp between late-Victorian Romanticism and Modernism. It imaginatively combines close readings with cultural and intellectual history and biography to reconsider individualism and philosophical thought in the Aesthetic Movement. It provides the most substantial scholarly engagement with Pater's unpublished manuscripts (held at the Houghton Library, Harvard University). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kate HextPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.562kg ISBN: 9780748646258ISBN 10: 0748646256 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 13 June 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"[An] elegant and erudite new study...--Matthew Kaiser ""Victorian Studies, Volume 57, Number 4"" In this original study of Walter Pater's many contexts - Oxford's classicists and colleges, late Victorian ideologies, German Idealism, theories of evolution and time - Kate Hext's Pater is revealed as intensely modern, obsessed with the most modern of problems: the status of the individual in nature and society. If the Blessed will not care what angle they are regarded from, the individual Pater and Pater's Individual are blessed in Hext's graceful, philosophical touch.-- ""Professor Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter""" [An] elegant and erudite new study... -- Matthew Kaiser, Victorian Studies, Volume 57, Number 4 Author InformationKate Hext is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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