The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe [Paperback]

Just over a century after his death, Walter Pater's critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world, this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first half of the twentieth century. In Europe, however, enthusiastic disciples such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the German-speaking world and Charles Du Bos in France, helped to fuel a growing awareness of his writings as central to the emergence of modernist literature. Translations of works like Imaginary Portraits, established his distinctive voice as an aesthetic critic and his novel, Marius the Epicurean, was enthusiastically received in Paris in the 1920s and published in Turin on the eve of the Second World War. This collection traces the fortunes of Pater's writings in these three major literatures and their reception in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Leading international scholars, critics and translators explore Pater's reception and afterlives throughout Europe. Includes a historical timeline and comprehensive bibliography.

Stephen Bann is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK.

Series Editor's Preface Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Timeline: European Reception of Pater by Stefano Evangelista, University of Bristol; Introduction by Stephen Bann, University of Bristol; I Italian; 1. 'The Sterile Ascetic of Beauty': Pater and the Italian fin de si?cle by Benedetta Bini, University of Tuscia; 2. The Fortune of The Renaissance in Italian art criticism (1894-1944) by Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna; 3. Pater's Reception in Italy by Elisa Bizzotto, University of Venice-Ca'Foscari; II French; 4. 'Influence occulte': The Reception of Pater's works in France before 1922 by Emily Eells, University of Paris X-Nanterre; 5. 'An untimely soul'? Pater's academic reception in France from the early 1920s by Ben?dicte Coste, Stenl(