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Rereading Walter Pater

Rereading Walter Pater

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 9

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521019818
ISBN13: 9780521019811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 15 2005
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. William F. Shuter shows that Pater authorized rereadings of his work in an effort to rewrite his own literary and cultural past. Drawing on unpublished manuscript material, Shuter shows how Pater's later work can serve, paradoxically, as an introduction to the earlier. Such a rereading of Pater's work uncovers patterns of continuity and anticipation that decisively alter our understanding of Pater and his writings.

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