The Collected Works of Walter Pater Imaginary Portraits: Volume 3

ISBN-13: 9780198823438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 416 str.

Lene Ostermark-Johansen

Opis

Imaginary Portraits is the third volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. This volume contains some of the most stylish and original pieces of short fiction in Victorian literature: portrayals of a series of handsome male protagonists across the ages of European history, set against a range of evocative European backdrops.

Recenzje

In 2019, Pater specialists and enthusiasts welcomed Imaginary Portraits...[Lene Østermark-Johansen] amasses numerous examples of the expression 'imaginary portrait' as used in English literature and culture since the end of the eighteenth century and through the Romantic and Victorian ages.

O autorze

Lene Østermark-Johansen teaches English art and literature at the University of Copenhagen and is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. She has a long-standing interest in word-image relations and has published extensively on Walter Pater and a range of other late nineteenth-century writers. Østermark-Johansen is the author of Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998) and of Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2011). She is currently working on a monograph on Pater and portraiture.