Walter Pater
Subtitle: Transparencies of Desire (1880-1920 British Authors Series, No. 16)
Contributors: Laurel Brake (Editor); Lesley Higgins (Editor); Carolyn Williams (Editor)
Publisher: Elt Pr
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780944318164
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; General; Biography & Autobiography; English; Biography/Autobiography; Pater, Walter,; 1839-1894; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: WALTER PATER'S increasingly prominent place in a number of different historiesnot only of Victorian literature, but of literary criticism, of modernism, of gender, of art, of sexualitysuggest that it is no longer possible to capture "the place of Pater," as T. S. Eliot so confidently proclaimed it in the 1930s.1