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By Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada,Martine Lambert-Charbonnier,Charlotte Ribeyrol

Reflecting Walter Pater’s assorted engagements with literature, the visible arts, historical past, and philosophy, this selection of essays explores new interdisciplinary views enticing readers and students alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic good points within the works of the Victorian essayist. A revised contextual portrait of Pater in Victorian tradition questions representations of the indifferent aesthete. present editorial and biographical tasks exhibit Pater as totally attentive to the emergence of contemporary purchaser tradition and the alterations in readership in Britain and the USA. New severe perspectives of not often studied texts increase a dead ringer for Pater as a worldly aesthete dialoguing with modern tradition. Conceptual research of his texts brings new mild to the cultured paradox embodied through Pater, among inventive detachment and immersion within the Heraclitean flux of lifestyles. eventually, aestheticism is redefined as presenting new inventive and linguistic synthesis through merging artwork varieties and embracing interart poetics.

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