The reception of Walter Pater in Europe /

Just over a century after his death, Walter Pater''s critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world, this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first half of the twentieth century. In Eur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bann, Stephen
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.
Series:Athlone critical traditions series ; v. 4.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=226840
Table of Contents:
  • Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Essays by Pater; Timeline: European Reception of Pater; Introduction; Italian; 1 'The sterile ascetic of beauty': Pater and the Italian fin de siècle; 2 The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian Art Criticism, 1894-1944; 3 Pater's Reception in Italy: a General View; French; 4 'Influence occulte': the Reception of Pater's Works in France Before 1922; 5 'An untimely soul'? Pater's Academic Reception in France from the Early 1920s; German; 6 A German View of Pater.