Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities, which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian context, among figures such as J. A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study and reception of Classics today.
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. The contributions presented here discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy.
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FRONTMATTER; 1. CLASSICS AND CLASSICISM; 2. FICTIONS; 3. GREEK ART AND CULTURE; 4. PHILOSOPHY; ENDMATTER
Martindale's robust and sophisticated take on the importance of Pater frames the book magnificently, and does exactly what an introduction should; it sets all the following chapters in a brighter framework, and whets the appetite for arguments to come.
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Offers an unprecedented study on Pater as a classicist, introducing readers to a range of new perspectives on this influential figure Covers Pater's extensive and varied oeuvre comprehensively, from his writings on ancient philosophy to his historical fiction Argues that studying Pater can influence how classical studies and the humanities more broadly are conducted today, with particular relevance to classical reception studies
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Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol, having previously also held the position of Dean of Arts there. He has written widely on reception issues, reception theory, and the relationship between classical and English poetry, especially Shakespeare and Milton and the afterlives of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. He is the author of Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (CUP, 1993) and Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (OUP, 2005), as well as general editor, with David Hopkins, of the 5-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, four volumes of which have now been published. Stefano Evangelista is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He works on nineteenth-century English and comparative literature with particular interests in the reception of the classics, Aestheticism and Decadence, and the relationship between literary and visual cultures. He is the author of British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), the editor of The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2010), and the co-editor with Catherine Maxwell of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate (Manchester University Press, 2013). Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of York. She is best known for her work on the art of Victorian Britain (especially Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism), and on the reception of ancient art in the modern world from Winckelmann to the present day. She has been involved in numerous exhibitions, including Alma-Tadema, D. G. Rossetti, and Waterhouse, and has also been published widely across a variety of subjects. Her most recent book is The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (I. B. Tauris, 2012).
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Offers an unprecedented study on Pater as a classicist, introducing readers to a range of new perspectives on this influential figure Covers Pater's extensive and varied oeuvre comprehensively, from his writings on ancient philosophy to his historical fiction Argues that studying Pater can influence how classical studies and the humanities more broadly are conducted today, with particular relevance to classical reception studies
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ISBN
9780198723417
Publisert
2017
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Oxford University Press
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546 gr
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223 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
28 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
368

Biographical note

Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol, having previously also held the position of Dean of Arts there. He has written widely on reception issues, reception theory, and the relationship between classical and English poetry, especially Shakespeare and Milton and the afterlives of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. He is the author of Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (CUP, 1993) and Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (OUP, 2005), as well as general editor, with David Hopkins, of the 5-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, four volumes of which have now been published. Stefano Evangelista is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He works on nineteenth-century English and comparative literature with particular interests in the reception of the classics, Aestheticism and Decadence, and the relationship between literary and visual cultures. He is the author of British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), the editor of The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2010), and the co-editor with Catherine Maxwell of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate (Manchester University Press, 2013). Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of York. She is best known for her work on the art of Victorian Britain (especially Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism), and on the reception of ancient art in the modern world from Winckelmann to the present day. She has been involved in numerous exhibitions, including Alma-Tadema, D. G. Rossetti, and Waterhouse, and has also been published widely across a variety of subjects. Her most recent book is The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (I. B. Tauris, 2012).