Walter Pater

First Published in 1981. Pater is certainly the least widely read and understood of any of the Victorian critics and creative writers, though there are signs of a coming revival of interest in him. Each of the discussions included in this issue devoted to Pater touches, in some significant way, on his "imaginative sense of fact," on his struggle with the objective 'givens' of experience (ideas or individuals), and on his efforts to co-opt or turn that Other into a reordered reflection of his own image.

Philip Dodd

Chapter 1 Introduction, Gerald Monsman; Chapter 2 The Intellectual Context of Walter Pater's "Conclusion", Billie Andrew Inman; Chapter 3 Pater's Criticism, Ian Small; Chapter 4 Judas and the Widow Thomas Wright and A.C.Benson as Biographers of Walter Pater, Laurel Brake; Chapter 5 Pater and Ruskin on Michelangelo, J.B. Bullen; Part 1 A New Edition of Walter Pater's Collected Works; Chapter 6 A Case for the Unretouched, if Imaginary, Portrait, Sharon Bassett; Chapter 7 Editing Walter Pater, R.M. Seiler; Chapter 8 The "Paper in MS.", Hayden Ward; Chapter 9 Walter Pater Studies, R.M. Seiler;