If your aim is to understand why he appealed and appeals to many diverse readers in many European languages, then you will find the book immensely illuminating...collectively [these essays] reveal much about the complex process in which a grand reputation is established.
- David Carrier, Art Bulletin, 2005,
Series Editor's Preface Elinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Timeline: European Reception of Pater by Stefano Evangelista, University of Bristol
Introduction by Stephen Bann, University of Bristol
I Italian
1. 'The Sterile Ascetic of Beauty': Pater and the Italian fin de siècle by Benedetta Bini, University of Tuscia
2. The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian art criticism (1894-1944) by Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna
3. Pater's Reception in Italy by Elisa Bizzotto, University of Venice-Ca'Foscari
II French
4. 'Influence occulte': The Reception of Pater's works in France before 1922 by Emily Eells, University of Paris X-Nanterre
5. 'An untimely soul'? Pater's academic reception in France from the early 1920s by Benédicte Coste, Stendhal University, Grenoble
III German
6. A German View of Pater by Wolfgang Iser
7. 'Time flowing and time suspended': Hoffmansthal's variations on a Paterian theme by Ulrike Stamm, Berlin
8. The critic's critic: Rudolf Borchardt's Centenary essay 'Walter Pater' (1939) by Martina Lauster, University of Exeter
IV Hungarian
9. Pater in Hungary by Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Eötvös University, Budapest V Czech
10. Pater in Czech culture: Milos Marten's Essay on Marius the Epicurean (1911) by Martin Prochàzka, Charles University, PragueVI Polish
11. 'Our "I" and History': The Polish Reception of Pater by Piotr Juszkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
VII Portugese
12. Fernando Pessoa and the reception of Pater in Portugal by Maria Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon and Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Oporto
VIII Catalan and Spanish
13. War and Peace - Pater's part: Translations in 1930s and 1940s Spain by Jacqueline Hurtley, University of Barcelona
Bibliography
Index