Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies

doi:10.1017/9781108869447

Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. With essays on drama, prose, and poetry, from Shakespeare and Browne, to Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Pater's contemporaries Rossetti and Morris, Appreciations exemplifies ideals of aesthetic criticism formulated in Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873). Subjectivity pervades Pater's essays on the English authors, while bringing out their exceptional qualities in a manner reaching far into twentieth-century criticism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

‘By the time readers have completed this superb volume, they will have encountered nuanced and suggestive readings of all eleven essays in Pater’s original volume.’

Megan Becker-Leckrone Source: Victorian Studies

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Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
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Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies - Title page
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Contents
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Contributors
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Introduction: Pater and English Literature
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Part I - General
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Introduction to Part I
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Chapter 1 - ‘Of the true family of Montaigne’: Appreciations and the Essay Tradition in English Literature
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Chapter 2 - Unravelling Pater’s English Poet: The Imaginary Portrait as Criticism
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Chapter 3 - Pater’s Montaigne and the Selfish Reader
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Chapter 4 - Studies in European Literature: Pater’s Cosmopolitan Criticism
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Chapter 5 - The ‘Postscript’
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Chapter 6 - Form, Matter, and Metaphysics in Walter Pater’s Essay on ‘Style’
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Chapter 7 - Walter Pater, Second-Hand Stylist
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Part II - Individual Authors: Early Moderns, Romantics, Contemporaries
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Introduction to Part II
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Chapter 8 - Pater’s Shakespeare
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Chapter 9 - Pater and the Quaintness of Seventeenth-Century English Prose
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Chapter 10 - ‘Spiritual Form’: Walter Pater’s Encounters with William Blake
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Chapter 11 - Pater on Coleridge and Wordsworth
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Chapter 12 - Walter Pater, Charles Lamb, and ‘the value of reserve’
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Chapter 13 - Poetry in Dilution: Pater, Morris, and the Future of English
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Chapter 14 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His School
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Postscript
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Walter Pater and English Studies: A Select Bibliography
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