The Platonism of Walter Pater: Embodied Equity

ISBN-13: 9780198848530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Adam Lee

Opis

This book examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout this career. Using the interdisciplinary critical tools of Pater's own educational milieu which combined literature, philosophy, and classics, The Platonism of Walter Pater repositions the importance Pater's contribution to literature and the history of ideas.

Recenzje

Throughout his engaging discussion of Pater's highly 'personal' Platonism, Lee offers a 'new portrait of Pater' (p. 251), depicting the growth of a complex mind whose Platonic affinities shed new light on the 'curiosity and desire of beauty' (Pater, Renaissance, qtd on p. 41) which Aestheticism so strongly projected onto the Hellenic past.

O autorze

Adam Lee is an Assistant Professor at Tyndale University, Canada. He has a D.Phil in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, specializing in the late-Victorian era. He has taught a range of courses at Sheridan College, including Composition and Rhetoric, Greek Mythology, and Canadian Literature; and currently he teaches literature from Classics to contemporary at Tyndale University, in Toronto, Canada.