Imaginary portraits
1887·158 pages
Four psychological portraits of fictional characters in historical settings, examining tensions between intellect, sensation, asceticism, and aestheticism.
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Four psychological portraits of fictional characters in historical settings, examining tensions between intellect, sensation, asceticism, and aestheticism.
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Walter Pater is best known for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and for his first novel Marius the Epicurean (1885). His short fiction deserves a much wider audience. This edition includes the four intricate and influential narratives he published as Imaginary Portraits in 1887 together with five of his other portraits, published only in periodical form. Fully annotated and supplemented by valuable contextual materials, this collection, the first critical edition of Pater's s...
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