The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. 'True aesthetic criticism' takes place working across the arts, Pater insists: acknowledging the differences between media, but seeking possibilities of interconnection.

' Victorian Aesthetic Conditions does more than bring together some of today's top scholars in Pater studies. By conceiving of Walter Pater as a fulcrum for hybridic conceptions of art, aesthetics, and culture, the interwoven chapters present Pater and Victorian society in ways we've never seen before. This insightful, vibrant collection is destined to become required reading for all of us working in the field.' - Dennis Denisoff, Chair, Department of English Member, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

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LAUREL BRAKE Emeritus Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, UK J.B.BULLEN Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, UK ELICIA CLEMENTS Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, York University, Canada COLIN CRUISE Research Lecturer, Aberystwyth, University of Wales, UK KENNETH DALEY Chairperson of the Department of English, Columbia College, Chicago, US ANDREW EASTHAM independent scholar KATE HEXT Associate Lecturer, University of the West England, UK LESLEY HIGGINS Professor of English, York University, Canada NORMAN KELVIN Distinguished Professor of English, City University of New York, US LENE ØSTERMARK-JOHANSEN Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark MATTHEW POTOLSKY Associate Professor of English, University of Utah, US JONAH SIEGEL Professor of English, Rutgers University, US CAROLYN WILLIAMS Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University, US.

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List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Aesthetic Life: Thinking Across the Arts and the Senses; E.Clements & L.Higgins PART I: PATER AND CONTEMPORARY VISUALITIES Art and the Museum; J.Siegel Pater and Contemporary Visual Art; J.B.Bullen The 'Necessity' of Corot and Whistler in Pater's 'Network' of Painters; L.Higgins Critical Connections and Quotational Strategies: Allegory and Aestheticism in Pater and Simeon Solomon; C.Cruise PART II: PATER AND THE DYNAMIC ARTS Pater's Auxerre Tapestry; K.Daley Sculpture, Style and Pater's Imaginative Sense of Touch; L. Østermark-Johansen The Painting as Physical Object in a Verbal Portrait: Pater's 'A Prince of Court Painters' and Wilde's 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.'; N.Kelvin Walter Pater, Film Theorist; C.Williams Pater's Musical Imagination: The Aural Architecture of 'The School of Giorgione' and Marius the Epicurean ; E.Clements Haunted Stages: Walter Pater and the 'Theatrical Mode of Life'; A.Eastham PART III: PATER AND THE PRACTICE OF WRITING Pater's Politics; M.Potolsky The Limitations of Schilleresque Self-Culture in Pater's Individualist Aesthetics; K.Hext The Art of the Novel: Pater and Fiction; L.Brake Bibliography Index