The latest issue of the twice-yearly IWPS journal, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism has been published. Issue 10 (Winter 2026) contains Giles Whiteley’s essay on Pater’s engagement with the ideas of the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, an essay by Francesca Orestano on Pater and Jakob Burckhardt, and a critical edition of ‘The Queer Correspondence of Michael Field’ by Alex Murray. Theodore Leane also reports on last year’s Trans/Pater conference, held at Cornell University 5-7 September 2025, while Laurel Brake has contributed an ‘In Memoriam’ on the late, great Pater critic, Billie Inman (1929-2020).
Issue 10 also includes a number of reviews of recent works on aestheticism and related subjects that will be of interest to scholars of the fin de siècle.