Pater, Walter (Horatio) - Christopher Coates (essay date 1994)
Christopher Coates (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: “Exhumation and Anachronism: Walter Pater and Nineteenth-Century Historicism,” in Victorians Institute Journal, Vol. 22, 1994, pp. 99-113.
[In the following essay, Coates describes “Duke Carl of Rosenmold” as Pater's treatment of the conflict between historical difference and historical continuity.]
May it be my part in the future, to have not attained, but marked the goal of history, to have called it a name that no one else had. Thierry called it narration, and M. Guizot analysis. I have named it resurrection, and this name will remain.
Jules Michelet, Le Peuple
In a bright dress he rambled among the graves, in the gay weather, and so came, in one corner, upon an open grave for a child—a dark space on the brilliant grass—the black mould lying heaped up around it, weighing down the little jewelled branches of the dwarf...
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