Gerald Monsman is Professor and former Head of the English Department at the University of Arizona, where he specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and Anglo-African literature. Previously as Professor at Duke University he had been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and, while part of the Duke program in creative writing, twice won the Blackwood Prize for Fiction from Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh); recently he has published fiction in the Enkare Review (Nairobi), a journal of avant-garde international voices in literature. To date he has published eight volumes of literary criticism, fifteen scholarly editions, one historical monograph, one critical biography, seven book chapters, and more than thirty critical articles, along with reference criticism, poetry and fiction, and reviews.

• General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Chronology Biographical Register Critical Introduction Textual Introduction Text of Gaston de Latour Appendix Textual Variants Explanatory Notes Bibliography Index

To open this beautiful and beautifully printed volume, reminiscent of the first edition of The Renaissance, is to be reminded of the editorial principles of The Collected Works which envisage Pater's texts and textuality both in their evolution—highly appropriate for Pater who incessantly revised his published essays if only to make minor corrections—and in their complex relationships to the literary and publishing culture of their times.

Gerald Monsman is Professor and former Head of the English Department at the University of Arizona, where he specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and Anglo-African literature. Previously as Professor at Duke University he had been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and, while part of the Duke program in creative writing, twice won the Blackwood Prize for Fiction from Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh); recently he has published fiction in the Enkare Review (Nairobi), a journal of avant-garde international voices in literature. To date he has published eight volumes of literary criticism, fifteen scholarly editions, one historical monograph, one critical biography, seven book chapters, and more than thirty critical articles, along with reference criticism, poetry and fiction, and reviews.

• General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Chronology Biographical Register Critical Introduction Textual Introduction Text of Gaston de Latour Appendix Textual Variants Explanatory Notes Bibliography Index

To open this beautiful and beautifully printed volume, reminiscent of the first edition of The Renaissance, is to be reminded of the editorial principles of The Collected Works which envisage Pater's texts and textuality both in their evolution—highly appropriate for Pater who incessantly revised his published essays if only to make minor corrections—and in their complex relationships to the literary and publishing culture of their times.

Gerald Monsman is Professor and former Head of the English Department at the University of Arizona, where he specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and Anglo-African literature. Previously as Professor at Duke University he had been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and, while part of the Duke program in creative writing, twice won the Blackwood Prize for Fiction from Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh); recently he has published fiction in the Enkare Review (Nairobi), a journal of avant-garde international voices in literature. To date he has published eight volumes of literary criticism, fifteen scholarly editions, one historical monograph, one critical biography, seven book chapters, and more than thirty critical articles, along with reference criticism, poetry and fiction, and reviews.

• General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Chronology Biographical Register Critical Introduction Textual Introduction Text of Gaston de Latour Appendix Textual Variants Explanatory Notes Bibliography Index

To open this beautiful and beautifully printed volume, reminiscent of the first edition of The Renaissance, is to be reminded of the editorial principles of The Collected Works which envisage Pater's texts and textuality both in their evolution—highly appropriate for Pater who incessantly revised his published essays if only to make minor corrections—and in their complex relationships to the literary and publishing culture of their times.