Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at Rouen University. Her research and teaching interests include British literature, art criticism, and painting of the 1860s–1890s. Martine Lambert-Charbonnier is Associate Professor at the University of Sorbonne-Paris 4. Her field of research focuses on late-nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics in England, and especially on Walter Pater. Charlotte Ribeyrol is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century English literature at the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Marie Curie Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford (2016–2018).

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Bénédicte Coste, Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, Charlotte Ribeyrol

Part I: Pater’s Modern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches

1 Walter Pater and the new Media: the "child" in the house, Laurel Brake

2 Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected Works,

Lesley Higgins and David Latham

3 Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: are there different Paters?

Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

Part II: Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture

4 Trace, race and grace: The influence of Ernest Renan’s Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse on Pater’s Gaston de Latour

Adam Lee

5 The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George Eliot

Thomas Albrecht

6 A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater’s "Sir Thomas Browne" and its Nineteenth-Century British Context

Daichi Ishikawa

Part III: Modern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire and Artistic Detachment

7 "What an interesting period… is this we are in!" Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the "Aesthetic Life"

Joseph Bristow

8 A Dialectical History of the Subject of Same-Sex Desire: Queer Conclusions

Michael F. Davis

9 "Unimpassioned Passion’: Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater’s Rhetoric of Affect

Nicholas Manning

Part IV: Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait

10 "What came of him?" Change and Continuity in Pater’s Portraits

Lene Østermark-Johansen

11 Walter Pater’s Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in "Coleridge’s Writings" and "Sebastian van Storck"

Kit Andrews

12 Reading the Mona Lisa

Pascal Aquien

Notes on Contributors

Index