Walter Pater and Persons

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Stephen Cheeke (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol)

Walter Pater and Persons

Stephen Cheeke (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol)

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English

Oxford University Press
20 September 2024

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics; History of ideas

Walter Pater and Persons investigates the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater, a major influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Stephen Cheeke explores the intersections of the person, persona, and personality in Pater's work; re-examines arguments about his famously personal prose style; traces Pater's ambivalent fascination with impersonality and asceticism; considers the poetics of personification in his writings about Greek myth and religion, in the divine logos of early Christianity, and in the theory of Platonic Universals; and explores his fascination with metempsychosis (the many persons through whom the individual soul transmigrates).

Cheeke also explores the networks in which Pater was interpreted and misinterpreted by different persons and personalities, such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and W.

B Yeats. Their (mis)readings of Pater, and rebellions against his work from Decadent, antinomian, and 'mystical' perspectives, reveal the ways in which Pater's writing had always been in a critical dialogue with its own thinking, as well as a prescient one in relation to his reception. The philosophical question of 'what is a person?'--a crucial one for the nineteenth century, and with an increasing urgency in our own times--is illuminated throughout this work.

By: Stephen Cheeke (Senior Lecturer in English Senior Lecturer in English University of Bristol)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 142mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9780198920267
ISBN 10: 0198920261
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Cheeke is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. His previous publications include Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia (2003), Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (2008), and Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism (2016).