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Author:
Hext, Kate.
Title:
Walter Pater : individualism and aesthetic philosophy / Kate Hext.
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
ix, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Pater, Walter,--1839-1894--Criticism and interpretation.
Individualism in literature.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-207) and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction: individualism and the 'aesthetic philosopher' -- 2. Empiricism and imperilled self -- 3. Subjectivity and imagination: from Hume to Kant via Berkeley -- 4. Metaphysics: Pater's failed attempt at atheism -- 5. Sense and sensuality: caught between Venus and Dionysus -- 6. Pater's Copernican revolution: the desiring, dying body -- 7. Evolution and the 'species': the individual in deep time -- 8. The moment and the aesthetic imagination -- 9. Ethics, society and the aesthetic individual -- 10. Conclusion: 'the elusive inscrutable mistakable self'
Series:
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
ISBN:
0748646256
9780748646258
OCLC:
(OCoLC)825735202
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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