(Ebook) Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater by , , ISBN 9781138081574, 1138081574

(Ebook) Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater by , , ISBN 9781138081574, 1138081574

"Everywhere . . . he will seek the face of man": Embodying the Living Aesthete -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Walter Pater's Dialectical History of (Same-Sex) Desire: Queer Conclusions -- Thesis: The Medieval Culture of Desire -- Antithesis: The Return of the Repressed -- The Synthesis of the Subject of Desire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: "Unimpassioned Passion": Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater's Rhetoric of Affect -- Rupture Within the Aesthetic -- Pater's Interior Emotional Truth -- Passionate Confinement: The Limits of the Feeling Subject -- Against Affective Adequation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART IV: Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait -- Chapter 10: "What came of him?": Change and Continuity in Pater's Portraits -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Walter Pater's Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in "Coleridge's Writings" and "Sebastian van Storck" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Reading the Mona Lisa -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index