TY - JOUR
AU - Dean, Paul
AB - MARIUS THE EUROPEAN Walter Pater’s European Imagination. By Lene Østermark- Johansen. Oxford University Press, 2022; £100. As the title of this book suggests, Pater’s Europe was pre- eminently a Europe of the mind. The man who wrote on Greek literature, philosophy, and art, on French humanism and the Italian Renaissance, on Winckelmann, Flaubert, and Pascal – whose own fictions were set in ancient Rome, Golden Age Holland, and eighteenth century Germany – was also the man who said to Edmund Gosse, ‘Between you and me and the post, I hate a foreigner’. Of course, Pater trav - elled, but his travels were circumscribed. He went to France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, but saw Rome only once, and Greece not at all. His experience of northern Europe may have extended to Amsterdam and Haarlem, but no further. His orientalism was strictly second-hand. He preferred to speak English abroad, despite having French and German, and kept to himself as much as possible. (He pleaded a prior engagement when invited to hear Verlaine read, and his one meeting with Mallarmé – who could speak English – largely passed in silence on both sides.) Despite all this, as Lene Østermark-Johansen says, ‘Pater fully 
TI - Walter Pater’s European Imagination. By Lene Østermark-Johansen
JF - Essays in Criticism
DO - 10.1093/escrit/cgae016
DA - 2024-10-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/walter-pater-s-european-imagination-by-lene-stermark-johansen-nOxTuzGrCE
SP - 401
EP - 409
VL - 74
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -