Walter Pater and Persons

In this inventive and far-reaching study, Stephen Cheeke examines the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater. The book explores the intersections of the person, persona, and personality in Pater's writings, their famously personal prose style, and their reception amongst key contemporaries, such as Wilde, Symons, and Yeats.

List of contents

• Introduction: Persons and Personhood


• Prelude: Outline and Undulancy


• 1: The Person / Persona / Personality


• 2: Style: The Pateresque


• 3: Impersonality


• 4: Personification


• 5: The One and the Many: Metempsychosis


• 6: Following Pater: Decadents and Antinomians


• 7: Against Pater


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Stephen Cheeke is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. His previous publications include Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia (2003), Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (2008), and Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism (2016).

Summary

In this inventive and far-reaching study, Stephen Cheeke examines the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater. The book explores the intersections of the person, persona, and personality in Pater's writings, their famously personal prose style, and their reception amongst key contemporaries, such as Wilde, Symons, and Yeats.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Cheeke, Stephen (Senior Lecturer in English Cheeke, Cheeke Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198920267
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892026-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, English, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form