Pater, Walter (Horatio) - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHIES
Benson, A. C. Walter Pater. 1906. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1968, 226 p.
Classic biography of Pater.
Monsman, Gerald. Walter Pater. Twayne's English Author Series, edited by Sylvia E. Bowman, No. 207. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977, 213 p.
Respected introduction to Pater's life and work.
CRITICISM
Adams, James Eli. “Gentleman, Dandy, Priest: Manliness and Social Authority in Pater's Aestheticism.” ELH 59, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 441-66.
Discusses Pater's writing as demonstrating the dynamics of “manliness.”
Block, Ed, Jr. “Walter Pater's ‘Diaphaneitè’ and the Pattern of Reader Response in the Portrait Essay.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 25, No. 3 (Fall 1983): 427-47.
Examines Pater's “attempts to engage the reader in a reflective dialogue,” particularly in “Diaphaneitè.”
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