Imaginary Portraits is Volume 3 in the tenvolume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (18391894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended the love of art for its own sake, developed a new genre of prose fiction (the imaginary portrait), set new standards for intermedial and crossdisciplinary criticism, and made style the watchword for creativity and life. Paters Imaginary Portraits are among some of the most stylish and original pieces of short fiction in Victorian literature portrayals of a series of handsome male protagonists across the ages of European history, set against a range of evocative European backdrops from Classical Greece to Medieval France, eighteenthcentury Germany and modern England. Together, they constitute a remarkable testimony to Paters profound understanding of centuries of cultural history, reworked in the hybrid genre of the imaginary portrait as sophisticated portrait miniatures of minor characters touched and affected by major moments in European history. They question central issues of nationhood and belonging, a PanEuropean cultural identity, and the fate of the individual in the face of collective history. As formative texts for Modernist writers like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf, Paters Imaginary Portraits had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.

Binding: Hardcover;408 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: DSBF; Weight: 748 g; Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 33

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