The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I
The Renaissance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198746300
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages816 pages
- Size 216x135 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 black and white illustrations and 19 colour plates 700
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Short description:
This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, his first book and the first book-length treatment of the Renaissance by a British writer. The study is presented with critical and textual introductions, notes, and textual variants.
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Walter Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British writer, it was also described as the 'golden book' of British aestheticism by Oscar Wilde. Following its sensational debut, Pater oversaw three further editions under a new title, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry. The book's dynamic textual history describes, indeed precipitates, a fast-moving journey from high Victorian intellectualism towards decadence. This edition, based on the fourth edition (1893), recovers the book's exciting cultural context in its twenty-five-year evolution from periodical articles into one of the period's most influential volumes.
With kaleidoscopic interests and an inquiring, speculative intelligence, Pater was steeped in the cultural and intellectual life of his age, responding creatively to what he read and saw to envisage new ways of engaging with the world. This edition reveals Pater's interests in contemporary arts and aesthetics, cutting-edge science, and emerging social sciences, and how these contributed to his radical revisioning of the history of the Renaissance. Responses to quattrocento artists are shot through with references to the art and literature of his own time; even Pater's most lyrical passages echo his reading in Victorian anthropology, psychology, and geomorphology.
The Renaissance offered sensual enjoyments that transformed and re-enchanted the experience of modernity. Its arresting account of paintings, sculptures, and literature elevated intensity of experience as the goal of life while remaking the reputations of artists like Botticelli and Leonardo. This edition connects Pater's experience of Renaissance art to the temper of his own time, both directly, beginning with his first visit to Italy in 1865, and indirectly, through the work of the Pre-Raphaelites in whose circle he moved and who, like him, mediated the Renaissance to the modern world. Generously illustrated, it captures Pater's articulation of art and ideas now fundamental to western thought.
Table of Contents:
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Biographical Register
Critical Introduction
Textual Introduction
TEXT OF THE RENAISSANCE: STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY
Textual Variants
Explanatory Notes
Appendix: Contents of the Four Lifetime Editions
Bibliography
Index
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance
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