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 siècle 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 Benédicte Coste, Stendhal University, Grenoble III German 6. A German View of Pater by Wolfgang Iser 7. 'Time flowing and time suspended': Hoffmansthal's variations on a Paterian theme by Ulrike Stamm, Berlin 8. The critic's critic: Rudolf Borchardt's Centenary essay 'Walter Pater' (1939) by Martina Lauster, University of Exeter IV Hungarian 9. Pater in Hungary by Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Eötvös University, Budapest V Czech 10. Pater in Czech culture: Milos Marten's Essay on Marius the Epicurean (1911) by Martin Prochàzka, Charles University, PragueVI Polish 11. 'Our "I" and History': The Polish Reception of Pater by Piotr Juszkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan VII Portugese 12. Fernando Pessoa and the reception of Pater in Portugal by Maria Teresa Malafaia, University of Lisbon and Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva, University of Oporto VIII Catalan and Spanish 13. War and Peace - Pater's part: Translations in 1930s and 1940s Spain by Jacqueline Hurtley, University of Barcelona Bibliography Index

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