Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts

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by  Elicia Clements

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Contents
ListofIllustrations vii
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7 ThePaintingasPhysicalObjectinaVerbalPortrait:Pater’s‘A
PrinceofCourtPainters’andWilde’s‘ThePortraitofMrW.H.’ 117
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8 WalterPater,FilmTheorist 135
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9 Pater’sMusicalImagination:TheAuralArchitectureof‘The
SchoolofGiorgione’andMariustheEpicurean 152
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10 HauntedStages:WalterPaterandthe‘TheatricalModeofLife’ 167
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List of Illustrations
0.1 EdwardBurne-Jones,TheGoldenStairs(1880).TateGallery,
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1.1 Raphael,TheSchoolofAthens(1510–11).Stanzadella 3-
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1.3 Raphael,Parnassus(c.1511).StanzadellaSegnatura,Vatican Co
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2.1 EdwardBurne-Jones,Day(1870).FoggArtMuseum,Harvard om
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2.2 AlphonseLegros,LeCoupdevent (1875) 43 ek
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3.1 CamilleCorot,SouvenirdeMortefontaine(1864).Muséede bli
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9.1 Titian(formerlyGiorgione),TheConcert (c.1510).Galleria pyri
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Acknowledgments
TheimpetusforthisbookcamefromtheInternationalWalterPaterSociety
conferenceatRutgersUniversityinJuly2006.Wearegratefulforthelively
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Toronto, especially the Faculty of Arts research program. York’s Graduate Co
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Programme in English has been particularly generous with the allocation av
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of research assistants, namely Jonathan Vandor, Kristen Ames, and Taryn al
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forbeingunfailinglyhelpfulandaccommodating.AmandaPaxtonwasour om
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atPalgraveMacmillan,UK.Theyareasprofessionalandencouragingasthey bli
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are expeditious. We are also grateful to the anonymous reader of the vol- s
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wouldliketoacknowledge,asalways,OlgaHigginsandLiamRichardson. e
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For permission to reproduce Edward Burne-Jones’s The Golden Stairs and m - li
James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Symphony in White No. 2: The Little White co
GirlwewishtothankTateImages.ForpermissiontoincludeRaphael’sThe ect.
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School of Athens, Disputa, and Parnassus, the Apollo Belvedere, Townley’s Dis- o
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cobolus, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s Souvenir de Mortefontaine, and Titian’s av
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The Concert we would like to thank Art Resource Inc. For permission to al
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reproduce Edward Burne-Jones’s Day we wish to thank Harvard University w.
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Art Museums. For permission to reproduce Simeon Solomon’s The Mystery m
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of Faith we would like to thank the National Museums Merseyside (Lady al fr
Lever Art Gallery), for Solomon’s A Prelude by Bach, Christie’s Images, and eri
for Solomon’s Sacramentum Amoris, V&A Images. For permission to include mat
Auguste Rodin’s Masque de l’homme au nez cassé we thank the Agence Pho- ght
tographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux. Lastly, for permission to pyri
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reproducedetailsfromthefrontispieceandtitlepageofAndreasVesalius,De C
corporishumanifabrica,wewishtothankCambridgeUniversityLibrary.
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Notes on Contributors
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Laurel Brake is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Print Culture at 3-
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Newsletter in 1977 and co-edited it for 20 years. Her books include two ct -
on the Victorian press, Subjugated Knowledges (1994) and Print in Transition ne
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(2001),andoneonWalterPater(1994);halfofPrintinTransitiontreatsPater’s Co
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writing as a case study. ‘Vernon Lee and the Pater Circle’ appeared in Ver- av
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non Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics, ed C. Maxwell and P. Pulham (2006). al
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With Ian Small she co-edited Pater in the 1990s (1990), and with Lesley o -
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Higgins and Carolyn Williams, Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (2002). om
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Her Pater entries appeared in Routledge’s Key Writers on Art in 2003 and et i
intheODNBin2004.InadditiontoherPaterworkshewasthedirectorof ek
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ncse,theNineteenth-CenturySerialsEdition(2004–08),afreefull-textonline bli
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edition of six nineteenth-century journals (www.ncse.ac.uk) and co-editor s
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withMarysaDemoorofDNCJ,theDictionaryofNineteenth-CenturyJournalism sit
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J. B. Bullen is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK. He d t
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has had a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary studies and his books ns
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i(n19cl8u6d)e, TThheeEMxpyrthessoivfetEhyee:RVenisaiiosnsaanncde PinercNepintieotneeinnthth-CeeWntourrkyoWfTrhitoinmgas(1H9a9r5d)y, m - lic
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and The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry and Criti- ct.
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cism(1998).HehaspublishedarticlesonColeridge,Ruskin,Dickens,George nn
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Eliot,Browning,andPater;hehaseditedRogerFry’sVisionandDesign(1981) ec
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and Clive Bell’s Art (1987), and has compiled Post-Impressionists in England gr
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(1988). In 2003 he published a history of the Byzantine Revival entitled w.p
Byzantium Rediscovered, and in 2005, European Crosscurrents: British Criticism ww
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and Continental Art, 1810–1910. He has contributed the entry for Dante o
Gabriel Rossetti for the new ODNB. He is editor of the FOCI series of Reak- al fr
tionBooks,assistanteditorofthenewOxfordCompaniontoEnglishLiterature, ateri
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and editor of the series ‘Cultural Interactions’ for Peter Lang. His critical ht
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biographyofDanteGabrielRossettiwillbepublishedin2010. yri
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Elicia Clements is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at York C
University,Toronto.Shehaspublishedonthemusicalconnectionsbetween
Virginia Woolf and Ethel Smyth, as well as the links between Ludwig van
Beethoven’slatecompositionsandWoolf’snarrativemethodinTheWaves.
In a recent article she investigates the performative interchange between
thewordsandthemusicofGertrudeSteinandVirgilThomson’soperaThe
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