The latest issue of the twice-yearly IWPS journal, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism is about to be 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.