Walter Pater

Walter Pater (1839-94) was an active participant in the literary marketplace as an academic, journalist, critic, writer of short stories, and novelist at a time of the rise of English and of journalism, university reform, and the professionalisation and separating out of literature from journalism.

Info autore

Dr Laurel Brake is Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written widely on Victorian literature and, in particular, Walter Pater, including Pater in the 1990s (1991) with Ian Small. She is also editor of The Pater Newsletter with Hayden Ward, and was for several years the editor of The Year's Work in English Studies. She is currently working on a full biography of Walter Pater.

Riassunto

This critical study of a key figure in Victorian literary society examines Walter Pater’s work on art history, literature and Greek studies, as well as analysing the roles of gender and journalism in shaping his writing.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laurel Brake, Laurel Brake
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.1994
• EAN: 9780746307168
• ISBN: 978-0-7463-0716-8
• Pagine: 96
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 217 mm x 6 mm
• Peso: 134 g
• Illustrazioni: bibliography, index
• Serie: Writers and Their Work; Writers and Their Work (Paperb; Writers and Their Work
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata