Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at Rouen University. Her research and teaching interests include British literature, art criticism, and painting of the 1860s–1890s. Martine Lambert-Charbonnier is Associate Professor at the University of Sorbonne-Paris 4. Her field of research focuses on late-nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics in England, and especially on Walter Pater. Charlotte Ribeyrol is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century English literature at the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a Marie Curie Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford (2016–2018).

• CONTENTSList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBénédicte Coste, Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, Charlotte RibeyrolPart I: Pater’s Modern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches1 Walter Pater and the new Media: the "child" in the house, Laurel Brake2 Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected Works, Lesley Higgins and David Latham3 Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: are there different Paters? Martine Lambert-CharbonnierPart II: Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture4 Trace, race and grace: The influence of Ernest Renan’s Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse on Pater’s Gaston de LatourAdam Lee5 The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George EliotThomas Albrecht6 A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater’s "Sir Thomas Browne" and its Nineteenth-Century British ContextDaichi IshikawaPart III: Modern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire and Artistic Detachment7 "What an interesting period… is this we are in!" Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the "Aesthetic Life"Joseph Bristow8 A Dialectical History of the Subject of Same-Sex Desire: Queer ConclusionsMichael F. Davis9 "Unimpassioned Passion’: Inner Excess and Exterior Restraint in Pater’s Rhetoric of AffectNicholas ManningPart IV: Interart Poetics: The Art of the Portrait10 "What came of him?" Change and Continuity in Pater’s PortraitsLene Østermark-Johansen11 Walter Pater’s Lives of Philosophers: Inversions of the Aesthetic Life in "Coleridge’s Writings" and "Sebastian van Storck"Kit Andrews12 Reading the Mona LisaPascal AquienNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Those attempting to analyse Pater need to be able to write with clarity and precision themselves [...] this is achieved throughout the volume [...] Both the editors and the contributors deserve praise for producing a volume in which a master of literary style has been written about with both insight and elegance."- James Downs, University of Exeter, BAVS Newsletter