The Cambridge companion to Walter Pater Hext, Kate editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt text bibliography enk 2026 2026 monographic eng print xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm. "This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least understood writers, Pater evinced a new mode of hedonism that presented a fundamental challenge to the prevailing moral and social norms of his contemporaries, responding to post-Darwinian sensibility, waning faith, and new philosophies in ethics and epistemology. In his diverse and daring writings, Pater spoke for a generation that encompassed aestheticism, decadence and the emergence of a queer literary canon, including writers such as Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Michael Field. His defining influence continued to be felt long after his rise to fame and notoriety by such major writers such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Featuring exceptional detail and thematic breadth of coverage, this Companion accessibly introduces Pater's main works and demonstrates his ongoing significance."-- Provided by publisher. Introduction. Pater, now / Kate Hext -- Pater as public intellectual / Sara Lyons -- The private Pater / Stephen Cheeke -- Pater and style / Catherine Maxwell -- Pater, looking / Kate Flint -- Pater's renaissance / Jonah Siegel -- Pater's novels / Stefano Evangelista -- Pater's short fiction / Lene Østermark-Johansen -- Pater and philosophy / Giles Whiteley -- Pater and religion / Michael D. Hurley -- Pater on ancient art and mythology / Matthew Potolsky -- Pater among the aesthetes / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Pater among the decadents / Kate Hext -- Pater among the modernists / Lesley Higgins -- Pater and gender / Julianna K. Will -- Pater and race / Dustin Friedman. edited by Kate Hext. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- Pater, Walter 1839-1894 Criticism and interpretation English literature 19th century History and criticism Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle Pater, Walter English literature History and criticism Great Britain 1800-1899 fast PR5137 .C36 2026 824.8 Cambridge companions to literature 9781316516690 1316516695 9781009015967 1009015966 9781009030892 2025033342 POD DLC 250919 20260726034148.5 in00005789004 eng