Pater the Classicist
Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2017
- ISBN 9780198723417
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 223x149x27 mm
- Weight 546 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. The contributions presented here discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy.
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities, which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian context, among figures such as J. A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study and reception of Classics today.
Martindale's robust and sophisticated take on the importance of Pater frames the book magnificently, and does exactly what an introduction should; it sets all the following chapters in a brighter framework, and whets the appetite for arguments to come.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Contributors
Pater and Antiquity
1. Classics and Classicism
Introduction to Part 1
Pater as Professional Classicist
Pater the Translator
Pater's 'Winckelmann': Aesthetic Criticism and Classical Reception
Eternal Moment: Pater on the Temporality of the Classical Ideal in Art
2. Fictions
Introduction to Part 2
Tibullus in Marius the Epicurean; or How to Read Pater's Fiction
Marcus the Stoic in Marius the Epicurean
A Search for Home: The Representation of the Domestic in Marius the Epicurean
Reception, Receptivity, and Anachronism in Marius the Epicurean
Pater's 'Apollo in Picardy': The Art of Scholarly Method
3. Greek Art and Culture
Introduction to Part 3
Pater's 'Hippolytus Veiled': A Study from Euripides?
Hellenic Utopias: Pater in the Footsteps of Pausanias
Pater on Sculpture
Pater and Greek Religion
4. Philosophy
Introduction to Part 4
Pater's Heraclitus: Irony and the Historical Method
Animism and Metaphysics in Pater's Platonism
Pater and Nettleship: A Platonic Education and the Politics of Disciplinarity
The Ethics of Contemplation: Pater's Reading of Aristotle
Afterword
Endmatter
General Bibliography on Pater and the Classics
Index
