{"product_id":"walter-paters-european-imagination-lene-stermark-johansen-9780192858757","title":"Walter Pater's European Imagination","description":"\u003cem\u003eWalter Pater's European Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European self over a period of some two thousand years. They include elements of travelogue and art criticism, together with discourses on myth, history, and philosophy. Examining Pater's methods of composition, use of narrative voice, and construction of character, the book draws on all of Pater's oeuvre and includes discussions of a range of his unpublished manuscripts, essays, and reviews. It engages with Pater's dialogue with the visual portrait and problematises the oscillation between type and individual, the generic and the particular, which characterises both the visual and the literary portrait. Exploring Pater's involvement with nineteenth-century historiography and collective memory, the book positions Pater's fiction solidly within such nineteenth-century genres as the historical novel and the Bildungsroman, while also discussing the portraits as specimens of biographical writing. As the 'Ur-texts' from which generations of modernist life-writing developed, Pater's 'imaginary portraits' became pivotal for such modernist writers as Virginia Woolf and Harold Nicolson. \u003cem\u003eWalter Pater's European Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e explores such twentieth-century successors, together with French contemporaries like Sainte-Beuve and followers like Marcel Schwob.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lene ﾘStermark-Johansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192858750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192858757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 6.40w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2023","brand":"Lene ﾘStermark-Johansen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44122934935807,"sku":"9780192858757","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9b95f08-a3c6-403f-b9ae-a1d90db8ad43.jpg?v=1687427963","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walter-paters-european-imagination-lene-stermark-johansen-9780192858757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}