Walter Pater: Humanist

By Richmond Crinkley

Book Overview

This provocative study suggests that Pater, usually thought of as a florid prose stylist and second-rate adjunct to the Esthetic Movement, is, in reality, an articulate prophet of the twentieth century. Pater's work, the book indicates, shows a consistent concern with the transmission of humanism from one generation to the next through the medium of art. The link in that transmission is the human image in a milieu-the appearance of man as manifested in painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, or dram

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813151856
• ISBN13: 9780813151854
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher