Victorian Aesthetic Conditions

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Aesthetic Life: Thinking Across the Arts and the Senses; E.Clements & L.Higgins PART I: PATER AND CONTEMPORARY VISUALITIES Art and the Museum; J.Siegel Pater and Contemporary Visual Art; J.B.Bullen The 'Necessity' of Corot and Whistler in Pater's 'Network' of Painters; L.Higgins Critical Connections and Quotational Strategies: Allegory and Aestheticism in Pater and Simeon Solomon; C.Cruise PART II: PATER AND THE DYNAMIC ARTS Pater's Auxerre Tapestry; K.Daley Sculpture, Style and Pater's Imaginative Sense of Touch; L. Østermark-Johansen The Painting as Physical Object in a Verbal Portrait: Pater's 'A Prince of Court Painters' and Wilde's 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.'; N.Kelvin Walter Pater, Film Theorist; C.Williams Pater's Musical Imagination: The Aural Architecture of 'The School of Giorgione' and Marius the Epicurean ; E.Clements Haunted Stages: Walter Pater and the 'Theatrical Mode of Life'; A.Eastham PART III: PATER AND THE PRACTICE OF WRITING Pater's Politics; M.Potolsky The Limitations of Schilleresque Self-Culture in Pater's Individualist Aesthetics; K.Hext The Art of the Novel: Pater and Fiction; L.Brake Bibliography Index