Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada (editor) - Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater

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Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions

Reflecting Walter Paters diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic features in the works of the Victorian essayist. A revised contextual portrait of Pater in Victorian culture questions representations of the detached aesthete. Current editorial and biographical projects show Pater as fully responsive to the emergence of modern consumer culture and the changes in readership in Britain and the United States. New critical views of rarely studied texts enhance the image of Pater as a cosmopolitan aesthete dialoguing with contemporary culture. Conceptual analysis of his texts brings new light to the aesthetic paradox embodied by Pater, between artistic detachment and immersion in the Heraclitean flux of life. Finally, aestheticism is redefined as proposing new artistic and linguistic synthesis by merging art forms and embracing interart poetics.

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at Rouen University. Her research and teaching interests include British literature, art criticism, and painting of the 1860s1890s.

Martine Lambert-Charbonnier is Associate Professor at the University of Sorbonne-Paris 4. Her field of research focuses on late-nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics in England, and especially on Walter Pater.

Charlotte Ribeyrol is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century English literature at the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Marie Curie Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford (20162018).

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Among the Victorians and Modernists
Edited by Dennis Denisoff

This series publishes monographs and essay collections on literature, art, and culture in the context of the diverse aesthetic, political, social, technological, and scientific innovations that arose among the Victorians and Modernists. Viable topics include, but are not limited to, artistic and cultural debates and movements; influential figures and communities; and agitations and developments regarding subjects such as animals, commodification, decadence, degeneracy, democracy, desire, ecology, gender, nationalism, the paranormal, performance, public art, sex, socialism, spiritualities, transnationalism, and the urban. Studies that address continuities between the Victorians and Modernists are welcome. Work on recent responses to the periods such as Neo-Victorian novels, graphic novels, and film will also be considered.

1 Arthur OShaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum

By Jordan Kistler

2 Dialectics of Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction

By Leila May

3 Louise Jopling

By Patricia de Montfort

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Testing New Opinions and
Courting New Impressions

New Perspectives on Walter Pater

Edited by Anne-Florence Gillard
Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier,
and Charlotte Ribeyrol

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Thomas Albrecht teaches literature and literary criticism as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (State University of New York Press, 2009) and the editor of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman (Stanford University Press, 2007). He is currently completing a book manuscript on ethics in the writings of George Eliot.

Kit Andrews is Professor of English at Western Oregon University. He has published articles on Walter Pater, Michael Field, Watteau, and T.H. Green in journals such as ELT and The Journal of the History of Ideas . His article on Carlyles reception of Fichte recently appeared in Literature Compass . He is currently researching Benjamin Jowetts critique of the Victorian reception of Hegel by Oxford Idealist philosophers.

Pascal Aquien is Professor of English Literature (Poetry) at Paris-Sorbonne University. His major publications include W.H. Auden: de lden perdu au jardin des mots (LHarmattan, 1996); The Picture of Dorian Gray. Pour une potique du roman (ditions du Temps, 2004); Oscar Wilde. Les mots et les songes (Aden, 2006); Tombeau pour Swinburne . Chapter: Lesbia Brandon , ou lart et la lanire (Aden, 2010); numerous editions and translations of Oscar Wildes comedies and major works (Flammarion and Le Livre de Poche). He has contributed to the edition of Oscar Wildes works ( uvres , Bibliothque de la Pliade, 1996) and edited Thomas De Quinceys works ( uvres , Bibliothque de la Pliade, Gallimard, 2011). He is author of numerous articles on English poetry (19th and 20th centuries). His research interests include stylistic analysis of poetry and literary corpus.

Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests are media history, gender, digital humanities, and Walter and Clara Pater. She is the author of Subjugated Knowledges (NYU Press, 1994) , Walter Pater (Northcote House, 1994) , Print in Transition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and a number of co-edited collections on Pater and on the press over the past three decades. Recent print and digital work includes ncse (Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition; ncse, a free online digital edition of six nineteenth-century journals: www.ncse.ac.uk ); and DNCJ ( Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism ), co-edited with Marysa Demoor (in print and online), and articles on ephemera, supplements , journalism networks, Swinburne and journalism, Pater and American reprints, Pater and the Guardian , The Lives of Men on Pater biography and Thomas Wright, and Better Together. The Paters and ink Work in Life Writing , about the advantages of writing a sibling biography. With Jim Mussell, Roger Luckhurst, and Ed King she co-edited W.T. Stead, Newspaper Revolutionary in 2012, and in 2015, she co-edited The News of the World and the British Press 18432011, with Mark Turner and Chandrika Paul. She is an editor of a volume of journalism in the new Oxford Collected Works of Walter Pater , and serves on the advisory boards of Media History, Victorian Periodical Review, Esprit (a network of scholars in Europe writing on European periodicals) and NINES. She is currently working on Ink Work, a biography of Walter Pater, Clara Pater and print culture.