Walter Pater: Imaginary Portraits.
Edited by Lene Østermark-Johansen.

MHRA Critical Texts Vol. 35
ISBN 978-1-907322-55-6
Spring 2013
Pbk £9.99 / $15.99 / EUR11.99

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Walter Pater is best known for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and for his only novel Marius the Epicurean (1885). His short pieces of fiction, entitled Imaginary Portraits, are, however, in many respects far more appealing to a modern audience than his novel and deserve much wider exposure. This edition brings together the four imaginary portraits published in volume form by Pater in 1887 with other of his imaginary portraits, only published in periodical form and not collected during Pater’s lifetime, thus giving a much wider representation of Pater as a writer of fiction than previously.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Note on the Text
A Chronology of Walter Pater
Diaphaneitè (1864)
The Child in the House (1878)
An English Poet (1878)
A Prince of Court Painters (1885)
Sebastian van Storck (1886)
Denys l’Auxerrois (1886)
Duke Carl of Rosenmold (1887)
Hippolytus Veiled (1889)
Emerald Uthwart (1892)
Apollo in Picardy (1893)
Appendix A: From Heinrich Heine, The Gods in Exile (1853)
Appendix B: From Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, ‘Watteau’, L’Art du dix-huitième siècle (1860)
Appendix C: From Walter Pater, ‘A Study of Dionysus’ (1876)
Appendix D: From The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Mrs Humphrey Ward (1886) and from Pater’s review of the book (1886)
Appendix E: From Walter Pater, ‘Lacedaemon’ (1892)
Bibliography

Lene Østermark-Johansen is associate professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Walter Pater: Imaginary Portraits. Edited by Lene Østermark-Johansen.

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Walter Pater: Imaginary Portraits.
Edited by Lene Østermark-Johansen.