Synopses & Reviews
A rereading of the work of Walter Pater, a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture.
Review
"...Shuter's book makes a solid contribution to Pater scholarship. ...Shuter's effort to bring newly available material to bear on well-known texts points to valuable avenues for future research." Matthew Potolsky, Victorian Studies
Synopsis
William F. Shuter shows how Walter Pater attempted to rewrite his own literary and cultural past, and how Pater's later work serves, paradoxically, as a necessary introduction to the earlier. This rereading reveals patterns of continuity and anticipation, and sheds new light on Pater and his writings.