Further Reading
- 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.”)
- Benson, A. C., "Walter Pater," Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1968, 226 p. (Classic biography of Pater.)
- 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.”)
- Brake, Laurel, "Aesthetics in the Affray: Pater's Appreciations, with an Essay on Style," The Politics of Pleasure: Aesthetics and Cultural Theory, edited by Stephen Regan, pp. 59-86, Buckingham, England and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992. (Addresses questions of style, romanticism, gender, and literature raised by Pater in Appreciations in regard to aesthetic criticism.)
- Brake, Laurel, "The ‘wicked Westminster,’ the Fortnightly, and Walter Pater's Renaissance," Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices*, edited by John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten, pp. 289-305, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (Examines how the formats, chief interests, and politics of the journals in which Pater's writings appeared influenced the nature of his essays.)
- Carroll, Joseph, "Pater's Figures of Perplexity," Modern Language Quarterly 52, No. 3 (September 1991): 319-40. (Attempts to ascertain the meaning of Marius the Epicurean by separately analyzing the metaphysical and psychosexual aspects of the work.)
- Connor, Steven, "Myth as Multiplicity in Walter Pater's Greek Studies and ‘Denys l’Auxerrois’," The Review of English Studies 34, No. 133 (February 1983): 28-42. (Examines Pater's mythological fiction, his debt to German mythographer Ludwig Preller, and the combination of conscious and unconscious myth found in Pater's imaginary portrait of Dionysus.)
- Dowling, Linda, "Walter Pater and Archaeology: The Reconciliation with Earth," Victorian Studies 31, No. 2 (Winter 1988): 209-31. (Examines “The Myth of Demeter and Persephone” with emphasis on Pater's controversial three-part division of “the elaboration of myth” and his choice of diction in expressing it.)
- Lubbock, Jules, "Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean—The Imaginary Portrait as Cultural History," Journal of the Warburg and Courtland Institutes 46 (1983): 166-90. (Denies that Marius the Epicurean should be viewed as autobiography, arguing instead for a cultural-historical reading.)
- Matz, Jesse, "Walter Pater's Literary Impression," Modern Language Quarterly 56, No. 4 (December 1995): 433-56. (Examines Pater's theories and attitudes concerning the “impression” and explores their links to homoeroticism.)
- McGowan, John, "From Pater to Wilde to Joyce: Modernist Epiphany and the Soulful Self," Texas Studies in Literature 32, No. 3 (Fall 1990): 417-45. (Examines the extremism of Pater's “Conclusion” and its implications concerning knowledge of the self.)
- Monsman, Gerald, "Pater's ‘Child in the House’ and the Renovation of the Self," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 28, No. 3 (Fall 1986): 281-95. (Analyzes the origins of “Child in the House” and the “dialectic between the author and his textual reflection.”)
- Monsman, Gerald, "Walter Pater," Twayne's English Author Series, No. 207, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977, 213 p. (Respected introduction to Pater's life and work.)
- Morgan, Thaïs E., "Reimagining Masculinity in Victorian Criticism: Swinburne and Pater," Victorian Studies 36, No. 3 (Spring 1993): 315-32. (Describes the similarities and distinct differences between Algernon Charles Swinburne's and Pater's homoerotic writings.)
- Shuter, William F., "The ‘Outing’ of Walter Pater," Nineteenth Century Literature 48, No. 4 (March 1994): 480-506. (Analyzes the evidence concerning Pater's homosexuality and the attempts to decode his text, and argues that the conclusions and interpretations reached by certain critics are somewhat dubious.)
- Williams, Carolyn, "Typology as Narrative Form: The Temporal Logic of Marius," English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 27, No. 1 (1984): 11-33. (Considers Pater's use of symbolic representation in Marius the Epicurean.)
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