Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

Author/Contributor(s):	Williams, Carolyn
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	11/01/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Exploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies...