Letter from Walter Pater to Algernon Charles Swinburne
Author | : Walter Pater |
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Author | : Sarah Glendon Lyons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351577069 |
How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminates the contradictory impulses of modern secularism: on the one hand, a desire to cast itself as a form of neutrality or disinterestedness; on the other, a desire to affirm 'this world' as the place of human flourishing or even enchantment. The standard narrative of a 'crisis of faith' does not do justice to the fissured, uncertain quality of Victorian visions of secularisation. Precisely because it had the status of a confusing hypothesis rather than a self-evident reality, it provoked not only dread and melancholia, but also forms of fantasy. Within this context Lyons gives a fundamentally new account of the aims and nature of Victorian aestheticism, taking as a focus its deceptively simple claim that art is for art's sake first of all.
Author | : Terry L Meyers |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 1262 |
Release | : 2024-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1040156150 |
These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
Author | : Terry L Meyers |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040249167 |
These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
Author | : Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
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Author | : Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1919 |
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Author | : Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
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Author | : Robert Seiler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2023-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192848313 |
Imaginary Portraits' is volume 3 in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for its own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. Pater's Imaginary Portraits are among some of the most stylish and original pieces of short fiction in Victorian literature: portrayals of a series of handsome male protagonists across the ages of European history, set against a range of evocative European backdrops from Classical Greece to Medieval France, eighteenth-century Germany and modern England. Together, they constitute a remarkable testimony to Pater's profound understanding of centuries of cultural history, reworked in the0hybrid genre of the imaginary portrait as sophisticated portrait miniatures of minor characters touched and affected by major moments in European history. They question central issues of nationhood and belonging, a Pan-European cultural identity, and the fate of the individual in the face of collective history. As formative texts for Modernist writers like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf, Pater's Imaginary Portraits had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.
Author | : Terry L Meyers |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040246095 |
These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.