2023
Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism, Issue 8, Summer 2023
Essays
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- ‘Love in the Time of the Antonine Plague: Pater’s Decadent Pisa’ by Giles Whiteley
- ‘Walter Pater’s Idea of Fate: Aesthetics and Narrative Destiny’ by James Dowthwaite
- ‘White Desire: Pater and Race’ by Rachel Teukolsky
- ‘Translations and Re-enactments: Georges Eekhoud (1854 –1927), a Belgian Counterpart to Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater’ by Clément Dessy
- ‘“Wings to Wear”: Avian Entanglements in the Paintings of Marie Spartali Stillman and Evelyn Pickering De Morgan’ by Catherine Delyfer
Reviews
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- Catherine Maxwell reviews Walter Pater’s Correspondence (The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX) ed. by Robert M. Seiler.
- Stephen Cheeke reviews Walter Pater’s European Imagination by Lene Østermark-Johansen
- Simon Casimir Wilson reviews Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young by Margaret Stetz
- John Stokes reviews Decadent Writings of Aubrey Beardsley, ed. by Sasha Dovzhyk and Simon Wilson
- Fraser Riddell reviews Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family by Kristin Mahoney
- Rohan McWilliam reviews Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings from Arrest to Imprisonment by Joseph Bristow
2022
Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism, Issue 7, Autumn 2022
Contents:
Essays
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- ‘Atossa to Pansie: Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, and their Cats’ by Catherine Maxwell
- ‘Walter Pater’s Museological Gaze’ by Jordan Kistler
- ‘Debating “L’Esthéticisme” and “L’Esthétisme” in Some French Periodicals’ by Bénédicte Coste
- ‘Vernon Lee’s “Aristocratic Pastorals: Notes from London” (1885) — An Introduction and Translation’ by Fraser Riddell
- ‘Michael Field’s Philosophy Notebook’ by Alex Murray
Reviews
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- Kristin Mahoney reviews Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English ‘Fin de Siècle’: Citizens of Nowhere by Stefano Evangelista
- Dustin Friedman reviews The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907 by Giles Whiteley
- Alex Murray reviews Decadent Ecology in British literature and art, 1860-1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival by Dennis Denisoff
- Michael Craske reviews Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the ‘Fin de Siècle’ by Fraser Riddell
- Rob Harris reviews Henry James and the Art of Impressions by John Scholar
- Angela Dunstan reviews The Sculptural Body in Victorian literature: Encrypted Sexualities by Patricia Pulham
- Ruth Hobley reviews Michael Field: ‘For that Moment Only’ and other Prose Works, edited by Alex Murray and Sarah Parker
- Sarah Parker reviews The Forms of Michael Field, by LeeAnne M. Richardson, and and Chains of Love and Beauty: the Diary of Michael Field by Carolyn Dever
2021
Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism, Issue 6, Autumn 2021
Contents:
Essays
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- ‘Pater and Schelling’ by Giles Whiteley
- ‘The Challenge of Living up to One’s Oxford Character: Walter Pater, Max Beerbohm, and William Rothenstein in the 1890s’ by Lene Østermark-Johansen
- ‘Pater’s Moustache’ by Joseph Bristow
- ‘“A Genius for Inaccuracy”: Edmund Gosse and the Case of Swinburne’s Missing Musical “Ear”’ by Michael Craske
- ‘Inhaling Colour: Vernon Lee and the Chromatic Body’ by Claudia Tobin
Reviews
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- Charles Martindale and Elizabeth Prettejohn review The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume VIII: Classical Studies, edited by Matthew Potolsky
- Charlotte Ribeyrol reviews The Platonism of Walter Pater: Embodied Equity by Adam Lee
- Alice Condé reviews Decadence: A Literary History, edited by Alex Murray
- Giovanni Bassi reviews Mario Praz: Voice Center Stage, edited by Elisa Bizzotto
- Lene Østermark-Johansen reviews Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After by Jonah Siegel
- Michael Craske reviews Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt, edited by Eleanor Dobson, and Late Victorian Orientalism: Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art, and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge, edited by Eleonora Sasso
- Alex Murray reviews Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings, edited by William Greenslade and Emanuela Ettorre
- Stefano Evangelista reviews Decadence in the Age of Modernism, edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray