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Author: Lene Østermark-Johansen (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Copenhagen)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.838kg
ISBN: 9780192858757
ISBN 10: 0192858750
Pages: 418
Publication Date: 07 September 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. Østermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years. * Dennis Denisoff, University of Tulsa, Modern Philology * This blended interest, along with the mythological depth of Pater's work, accounts for Pater's wide-ranging survey of Western literature and art. The scope of Pater's oeuvre cannot be captured in a single book, but Walter Pater's European Imagination comes very close to doing so. * Choice *
As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. /Ostermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years. * Dennis Denisoff, University of Tulsa, Modern Philology *
As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. /Ostermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years. * Dennis Denisoff, University of Tulsa, Modern Philology * This blended interest, along with the mythological depth of Pater's work, accounts for Pater's wide-ranging survey of Western literature and art. The scope of Pater's oeuvre cannot be captured in a single book, but Walter Pater's European Imagination comes very close to doing so. * Choice *
Author Information
Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English literature at the University of Copenhagen. Since her first book, Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998), she has specialised in word-image relations and published a broad range of essays and articles on Victorian aesthetes: A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Arthur Symons and, most substantially, Walter Pater. Her second monograph Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011) was followed by her critical edition of Pater's Imaginary Portraits (2019). She is currently co-editing a volume on Pater's contribution to the establishing of English as an academic subject.
