Walter Pater (1839-1894)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the English Victorian essayist and art critic Walter Pater, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources

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Literary Criticism

Bann, Stephen, ed. A review of The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe (Thoemmes Continuum, 2004). Reviewed in Art Bulletin, Sept, 2005 by David Carrier

Brake, Laurel. The Discourses of Journalism: "Arnold and Pater" Again--and Wilde [Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde]. From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Brake, Laurel and Ian Small. "Pater in the 1990s." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Bullen, J.B. "The Historiography of Studies in the History of the Renaissance." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Coates, John. "Controversial Aspects of Pater's 'Style.'" Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 2004

Dellamora, Richard. "Critical Impressionism as Anti-Phallogocentric Strategy." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Donoghue, Denis. A review of Walter Pater, Lover of Strange Souls (Knopf, 1995). Review by Ruth Roberts, Univ. of Calif. Press reviews (removed)

Dowling, Linda. "Foreword: Pater in the 1990s." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Higgins, Lesley. Essaying "W. H. Pater Esq.": New Perspectives on the Tutor/Student Relationship Between Pater and Hopkins [Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hopkins]. From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Inman, Billie Andrew. "Estrangement and Connection: Walter Pater, Benjamin Jowett, and William M. Hardinge." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

McGrath, F.C. "Pater Speaking Bloom Speaking Joyce." [influence of Walter Pater on James Joyce]. From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Miller, J. Hillis. Entry on Walter Pater in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Monsman, Gerald. Editing Pater's Gaston de Latour: The Unfinished Work as "A Fragment of Perfect Expression." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Moran, M.F. "Pater's Mythic Fiction: Gods in a Gilded Age." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Richards, Bernard. "Pater and Architecture." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Small, Ian. "Editing and Annotating Pater." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Spirit, Jane. "Nineteenth-Century Responses to Montaigne and Bruno: A Context for Pater." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Tucker, Paul. Pater as "Moralist." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Varty, Anne. The Crystal Man: A Study of "Diaphaniete." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Ward, Hayden. "The Last Thing Walter Wrote": Pater's "Pascal." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Ward, J.P. "An Anxiety of No Influence: Walter Pater on William Wordsworth." From Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, 1988

Weiss, Theodore. "Literary relations: Pater, Hopkins, and me." The editor of the Quarterly Review of Literature pens an appreciation of Walter Pater and Gerard Manley Hopkins. American Poetry Review, Sep/Oct 2002

George Landow's Victorian Web has essays on Walter Pater's themes and the Victorian background

Older criticism on Walter Pater from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

Internet Texts, Bibliography, Web Sites

Web site for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, a semi-annual, refereed journal covering Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic, and decadent art, culture, and literature. The web site currently provides a list of article titles back to 1987

An extensive list of magazine and newspaper articles dealing with Pre-Raphaelite literature or art from 1846-1900, with links to the etexts of the reviews

Number 6 in the 1880-1920 British Authors Series, a collection of 16 scholarly essays on Walter Pater, from the second inter-national Pater conference held at Queen's College, Oxford in 1988. Generously made available at English Literature in Transition, catalogued here

Notes on the Victorians and their art from the Tate Museum, designed for use by teachers of all grade levels, provides a good introduction to the Victorian period and particularly to Victorian art

For a list of Walter Pater's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, search engine that provides links to full texts on the internet

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