Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I - The Renaissance

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, his first book and the first book-length treatment of the Renaissance by a British writer. The study is presented with critical and textual introductions, notes, and textual variants.

List of contents

• General Editor's Preface


• Acknowledgements


• List of Illustrations


• List of Abbreviations


• Chronology


• Biographical Register


• Critical Introduction


• Textual Introduction


• TEXT OF THE RENAISSANCE: STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY


• Textual Variants


• Explanatory Notes


• Appendix: Contents of the Four Lifetime Editions


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Hilary Fraser is Professor Emerita at Birkbeck, University of London. She taught at Buckingham University (1978-1982), the University of Western Australia (1982-2000), and was Dean of Arts and Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church (2001-2002). In 2002 she became Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, where she served as Head of English (2005-2009), and Dean of Arts (2009-2017). She was Director of Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (2002-2012) and founding editor of its online journal 19, launched in 2005. She was President of the British Association of Victorian Studies from 2015-2018.

Summary

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, his first book and the first book-length treatment of the Renaissance by a British writer. The study is presented with critical and textual introductions, notes, and textual variants.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9780198746300
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874630-0
• No. of pages: 816
• Series: Collected Works Of Walter Pater
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form