Imaginary portraits
By: by Walter Pater, edited with an introduction and notes by Lene Østermark-Johansen
Contributors: Østermark-Johansen, Lene, 1963-; Østermark-Johansen, Lene, 1963- editor
Series: Modern Humanities Research Association, Critical Texts -- volume 35; Jewelled Tortoise -- Volume 1; MHRA critical texts -- v. 1.; MHRA critical texts -- v. 35.
Publisher: Modern Humanities Res Ass
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781907322556
Subjects: Courts and courtiers; Fiction; History
Description: Walter Pater is best known for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and for his first novel Marius the Epicurean (1885). His short fiction deserves a much wider audience. This edition includes the four intricate and influential narratives he published as Imaginary Portraits in 1887 together with five of his other portraits, published only in periodical form. Fully annotated and supplemented by valuable contextual materials, this collection, the first critical edition of Pater's shorter fiction, makes accessible these extraordinary and impressive stories. This is the inaugural volume of the 'Jewelled Tortoise', an MHRA series of critical editions of significant aesthetic and decadent texts, launched under the general editorship of Stefano Evangelista and Catherine Maxwell. - From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A Pater chronology; title: A note on the text; title: 'Diaphaneitè'; title: 'The child in the house'; title: 'An English poet'; title: 'A prince of court painters'; title: 'Sebastian van Storck'; title: 'Denys l'Auxerrois'; title: 'Duke Carl of Rosenmold'; title: 'Hippolytus veiled'; title: 'Emerald Uthwart'; title: 'Apollo in Picardy'; title: Appendix A: from Heinrich Heine, The gods in exile; title: Appendix B: from Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, 'Watteau', L'art du XVIIIe siècle; title: Appendix C: from Walter Pater, 'A study of Dionysus : the spiritual form of fire and dew'; title: Appendix D: from Walter Pater, 'Lacedaemon'.