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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geoffrey Johnston Sadock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2009-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/5829