Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English literature at the University of Copenhagen. Since her first book, Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998), she has specialised in word-image relations and published a broad range of essays and articles on Victorian aesthetes: A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Arthur Symons and, most substantially, Walter Pater. Her second monograph Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011) was followed by her critical edition of Pater's Imaginary Portraits (2019). She is currently co-editing a volume on Pater's contribution to the establishing of English as an academic subject.As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity. Østermark-Johansen does justice to this vision, offering a fascinated and at times affectionate portrait of the scholar as a convergence of European aesthetics and philosophy from across centuries. The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years.
Dennis Denisoff, University of Tulsa, Modern Philology
This blended interest, along with the mythological depth of Pater's work, accounts for Pater's wide-ranging survey of Western literature and art. The scope of Pater's oeuvre cannot be captured in a single book, but Walter Pater's European Imagination comes very close to doing so.
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As Walter Pater's European Imagination suggests, the scholar strove to embody such a historically enlivened unity...The result is a fresh and trenchant assessment of Pater within the context of European ideas, and a holistic sense of the scholar that could only be produced by a person who has been committed to studying his life and works for many years.
Dennis Denisoff, Modern Philosophy
This brilliant book is both an erudite and much-needed tribute to Pater's European imagination in a post-Brexit age that is sadly causing us to reconsider what it means to be European in times of change and conflict.
Charlotte Ribeyrol, Ribeyrol
This is a very important book on Pater, demonstrating vast erudition and a meticulous, endlessly curious critical imagination. It is handsomely produced by Oxford University Press, with seventy- four beautiful illustrations.
Stephen Cheeke, University of Bristol