Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater
Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his f...
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Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2009-12-01
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Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/5829 |