Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English literature at the University of Copenhagen. Since her first book, Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998), she has specialised in word-image relations and published a broad range of essays and articles on Victorian aesthetes: A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Arthur Symons and, most substantially, Walter Pater. Her second monograph Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011) was followed by her critical edition of Pater's Imaginary Portraits (2019). She is currently co-editing a volume on Pater's contribution to the establishing of English as an academic subject.

As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. Østermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years.

• Introduction 1: Type and Individual 2: Life-Writing 3: Narrating the Self 4: Character and Caricature 5: The Poetics of Space: From Rooms to Cathedrals 6: The Poetics of Place: Mapping Pater's Europe 7: The Poetics of Time: Pater and History Bibliography

Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English literature at the University of Copenhagen. Since her first book, Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998), she has specialised in word-image relations and published a broad range of essays and articles on Victorian aesthetes: A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Arthur Symons and, most substantially, Walter Pater. Her second monograph Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011) was followed by her critical edition of Pater's Imaginary Portraits (2019). She is currently co-editing a volume on Pater's contribution to the establishing of English as an academic subject.

As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. Østermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years.

• Introduction 1: Type and Individual 2: Life-Writing 3: Narrating the Self 4: Character and Caricature 5: The Poetics of Space: From Rooms to Cathedrals 6: The Poetics of Place: Mapping Pater's Europe 7: The Poetics of Time: Pater and History Bibliography

Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English literature at the University of Copenhagen. Since her first book, Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998), she has specialised in word-image relations and published a broad range of essays and articles on Victorian aesthetes: A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Arthur Symons and, most substantially, Walter Pater. Her second monograph Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011) was followed by her critical edition of Pater's Imaginary Portraits (2019). She is currently co-editing a volume on Pater's contribution to the establishing of English as an academic subject.

As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. Østermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years.

• Introduction 1: Type and Individual 2: Life-Writing 3: Narrating the Self 4: Character and Caricature 5: The Poetics of Space: From Rooms to Cathedrals 6: The Poetics of Place: Mapping Pater's Europe 7: The Poetics of Time: Pater and History Bibliography