Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at Rouen University. Her research and teaching interests include British literature, art criticism, and painting of the 1860s–1890s. Martine Lambert-Charbonnier is Associate Professor at the University of Sorbonne-Paris 4. Her field of research focuses on late-nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics in England, and especially on Walter Pater. Charlotte Ribeyrol is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century English literature at the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Marie Curie Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford (2016–2018).

"Those attempting to analyse Pater need to be able to write with clarity and precision themselves [...] this is achieved throughout the volume [...] Both the editors and the contributors deserve praise for producing a volume in which a master of literary style has been written about with both insight and elegance."- James Downs, University of Exeter, BAVS Newsletter

• CONTENTSList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBénédicte Coste, Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, Charlotte RibeyrolPart I: Pater’s Modern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches1 Walter Pater and the new Media: the "child" in the house, Laurel Brake2 Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected Works, Lesley Higgins and David Latham3 Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: are there different Paters? Martine Lambert-CharbonnierPart II: Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture4 Trace, race and grace: The influence of Ernest Renan’s Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse on Pater’s Gaston de LatourAdam Lee5 The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George EliotThomas Albrecht6 A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater’s "Sir Thomas Browne" and its Nineteenth-Century British ContextDaichi IshikawaPart III: Modern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire and Artistic Detachment7 "What an interesting period… is this we are in!" Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the "Aesthetic Life"Joseph Bristow8 A Dialectical History of the Subject of Same-Sex Desire: Queer ConclusionsMichael F. Davis9 "Unimpassioned Passion’: Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater’s Rhetoric of AffectNicholas ManningPart IV: Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait10 "What came of him?" Change and Continuity in Pater’s PortraitsLene Østermark-Johansen11 Walter Pater’s Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in "Coleridge’s Writings" and "Sebastian van Storck"Kit Andrews12 Reading the Mona LisaPascal AquienNotes on ContributorsIndex