Walter Pater's European Imagination

by Lene Ostermark-Johansen

Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European self over a period of some two thousand years. They include elements of travelogue and art criticism, together with discourses on myth, history, and philosophy. Examining Pater's methods...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192858750
• ISBN13: 9780192858757
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 8.6"