Marius the Epicurean : his sensations and ideas

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Marius the Epicurean : his sensations and ideas

by Walter Pater

(Cambridge library collection, . Literary studies . The works of Walter Pater ; v. 2-3)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk

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Reprint. Originally publlished: London : Macmillan, 1900

"This digitally printed version 2011"--T.p. verso

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Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108034241

Description

Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. He brought his extensive knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. This edition of Pater's complete works was published in 1900-1 in a limited edition of 775 copies. It comprises eight volumes with an additional volume of critical essays first published in The Guardian. This is the first of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction. A novel of ideas, combining history and philosophy with a fictional narrative set in the late Roman Empire, the work is a fascinating experiment in the boundaries of genre.

Table of Contents

  • Part I: 1. 'The religion of Numa'
  • 2. White-nights
  • 3. Change of air
  • 4. The tree of knowledge
  • 5. The golden book
  • 6. Euphuism
  • 7. A pagan end
  • Part II: 8. Animula vagula
  • 9. New Cyrenaicism
  • 10. On the way
  • 11. 'The most religious city in the world'
  • 12. 'The divinity that doth hedge a king'
  • 13. The 'mistress and mother' of palaces
  • 14. Manly amusement.
Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108034258

Description

Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. He brought his extensive knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. This edition of Pater's complete works was published in 1900-1 in a limited edition of 775 copies. It comprises eight volumes with an additional volume of critical essays first published in The Guardian. This is the second of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction. A novel of ideas, combining history and philosophy with a fictional narrative set in the late Roman Empire, the work is a fascinating experiment in the boundaries of genre.

Table of Contents

  • Part III: 15. Stoicism at court
  • 16. Second thoughts
  • 17. Beata urbs
  • 18. 'The ceremony of the dart'
  • 19. The will as vision
  • Part IV: 20. Two curious houses. 1. Guests
  • 21. Two curious houses. 2. The church in Cecilia's house
  • 22. 'The minor peace of the church'
  • 23. Divine service
  • 24. A conversation not imaginary
  • 25. Sunt lacrimae rerum
  • 26. The martyrs
  • 27. The triumph of Marcus Aurelius
  • 28. Anima naturaliter christiana.

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