Book Chapters

clark-young-160446-unsplashArrata, Stephen. ‘The Impersonal Intimacy of Marius the Epicurean‘. The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature. Ed. Rachel Ablow. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. 131-156.

Bassett, Sharon. ‘”Golden Mediocrity”: Pater’s Marcus Aurelius and the Making of Decadence’. Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence. Ed. Liz Constable, Dennis Denisoff, and Matthew Potolsky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 254-267.

Ben, Donald R. ‘”Catching Light”: Physics and Art in Walter Pater’s Cultural Context’. One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature. Ed. George Levine and Alan Rauch. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1987. 143-163.

Beran, Zdeněk. ‘The Idea of the House as a Place of Return in the Work of Walter Pater’. The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representations of the House from Richardson to Woolf. Ed. Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 156-163.

Bizzotto, Elisa. ‘Walter Pater e la House Beautiful tra Puritanismo ed Estetismo’. Interlacing Perspectives: Dialoghi sulla tradizione artistico-letteraria inglese. Ed. Laura Giovannelli. Rome: Aracne, 2011. 89-108.

Bizzotto, Elisa. ‘The Legend of the Returning Gods in Pater and Wilde’. Athena’s Shuttle: Myth, Religion, Ideology from Romanticism to Modernism. Ed. Franco Marucci and Emma Sdegno. Milan: Cisalpino, 2000. 161-174.

Bloom, Harold. ‘The Crystal Man’. Selected Writings of Walter Pater. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. vii-xxxi.

Bloom, Harold. ‘The Place of Pater: Marius the Epicurean‘. The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. 185-196.

Brake, Laurel. ‘Vernon Lee and the Pater Circle’. Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics. Ed. Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 40-57.

Brake, Laurel. ‘A Moment of Being: Miss Marx, Miss Pater, ‘Miss Ambient’. Eleanor Marx (1855-1898): Life, Work, Contacts. Ed. John Stokes. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 145-155.

Brake, Laurel. ‘After Studies: Walter Pater’s Cancelled Book, or Dionysus and Gay Discourse in the 1870s’. Beauty and the Beast: Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R. L. Stevenson and their Contemporaries. Ed. Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges. Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1996. 115-126.

Brake, Laurel. ‘The “Wicked Westminster”, “The Fortnightly” and Walter Pater’s “Renaissance”‘. Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices. Ed. John O’Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 289-305.

Bridgwater, Patrick. ‘Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Germanism’. Anglo-German Interactions in Literature of the 1890s. Oxford: Legenda, 1999. 10-43.

Coste, Bénédicte. ‘”The Perfection of Nobody’s Style”: Impersonality and Emotion in Pater’s “Prosper Mérimée”‘. Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature. Ed. Christine Reynier and Jean-Michel Ganteau. Montpellier: Université Montpellier III, 2005. 29-42.

De Bruyn, Ben. ‘Art for Heart’s Sake: The Aesthetic Existences of Kiekegaard, Pater, and Iser’. Art and Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing and Re-humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic Receptor. Ed. Kelly Comfort. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 208-231.

Eastham, Andrew. ‘Aesthetic Vampirism: Pater, Wilde, and the Concept of Irony’. Art and Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing and Re-humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic Receptor. Ed. Kelly Comfort. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 79-95.

Eliot, T. S.  ‘Arnold and Pater’. Selected Essays. London: Faber, 1932.

Evangelista, Stefano. ‘Walter Pater’s Teaching in Oxford: Classics and Aestheticism’. Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000. Ed. Christopher Stray. London: Duckworth, 2007. 64-77.

Evangelista, Stefano. ‘The German Roots of British Aestheticism: Pater’s “Winckelmann”, Goethe’s Winckelmann, Pater’s Goethe’. Anglo-German Affinities and Antipathies in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Rüdiger Görner. Munich: Ludicium Verlag, 2004. 57-70.

Higgins, Lesley. ‘”A Thousand Solaces for the Modern Spirit”: Walter Pater’s Religious Discourse’. Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism. Ed. Jude V. Nixon. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Inman, Billie Andrew. ‘Walter Pater’s Versatility as a Critic’. Beauty and the Beast: Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R. L. Stevenson and their Contemporaries. Ed. Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges. Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1996. 99-114.

Inman, Billie Andrew. ‘Freud, Pater, and God’. Explorations: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Ann B. Dobie, Jennifer Brantley, Katherine A. Holman and Victoria H. Spaniol. Lafayette, LA: Levy Humanities Series, 1988. 100-116.

Ivory, Yvonne. ‘The De-Humanization of the Artistic Receptor: The George Circle’s Rejection of Paterian Aestheticism’. Art and Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing and Re-humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic Receptor. Ed. Kelly Comfort. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 96-108.

Levi St. Armand, Barton. ‘Lambert Strether’s Renaissance: Paterian Resonances in Henry James’s The Ambassadors‘. Critical Essays on Henry James: The Late Novels. Ed. James Gargano. Boston: Hall, 1987. 130-148.

Losey, Jay. ‘Disguising the Self in Pater and Wilde’. Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth Century England. Ed. Jay Losey and William D. Brewer. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 250-273.

Maxwell, Catherine. ‘Shelley’s Alchemy, Pater’s Transformations’. Legacies of Romanticism. Ed. C. Casaliggi and P. March-Russell. London: Routledge, 2012. 85-100.

O’Hara, Daniel. ‘The Temptations of the Scholar: Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits‘. De-Structing the Novel: Essays in Applied Postmodern Hermeneutics. Ed. Leonard Orr. Troy: Whiston, 1982. 65-111.

Østermark-Johansen, Lene. ‘On the Motion of Great Waters: Walter Pater, Leonardo, and Heraclitus’. Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance. Ed. John E. Law and Lene Østermark-Johansen. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 87-105.

Potolsky, Matthew. ‘Pale Imitations: Walter Pater’s Decadent Historiography’. Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence. Ed. Liz Constable, Dennis Denisoff, and Matthew Potolsky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 235-253.

Potts, Alex. ‘Pungent Prophecies of Art: Symonds, Pater, and Michelangelo’. John Addington Symonds: Culture and the Demon Desire. Ed. John Pemble. London: Macmillan, 2000. 102-121.

Prettejohn, Elizabeth. ‘Walter Pater and Aesthetic Painting’. After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England. Ed. Elizabeth Prettejohn. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. 36-58.

Prins, Yopie. ‘Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters’. Victorian Sexual Dissidence. Ed. Richard Dellamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.  43-82.

Rajan, Gita. ‘Œuvres Intertwined: Walter Pater and Antoine Watteau’. Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation. Ed. Lori Hope Lefkovitz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 185-205.

Rosenberg, John D. ‘Walter Pater and the Art of Evanescence’. Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature. Ed. John Rosenberg. London: Anthem Press, 2005.

Salmon, Richard. ‘Aestheticism in Translation: Henry James, Walter Pater, and Theodor Adorno’. Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics. Ed. Shirley Crew and Alistair Stead. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. 277-296.

Williams, Carolyn. ‘Walter Pater’s Impressionism and the Form of Historical Revival’. Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Suzy Anger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. 77-99.