Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies

Editors

Charles Martindale, University of Bristol
Charles Martindale is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He has published over a wide field, with particular emphasis on English-Classics literary relations, theoretical approaches to literature – in particular reception theory – and Kantian aesthetics and the importance of 'beauty'. He is the author of four books and editor or co-editor of fourteen collections.

Elizabeth Prettejohn, University of York
Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of York. Her recent research centres on relationships between the arts of past and present, explored in The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture (2012) and Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War (2017).

Lene Østermark-Johansen, University of Copenhagen
Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture (2012) and of Walter Pater's European Imagination (2022). She has edited Pater's Imaginary Portraits for the Oxford Collected Works of Walter Pater (2019).

Contributors

Charles Martindale, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Kenneth Daley, Lene Østermark-Johansen, Fergus McGhee, Stefano Evangelista, Ross Wilson, Michael D Hurley, Scarlett Baron, Alex Wong, Kathryn Murphy, Luisa Calè, Charles W Mahoney, Stacey McDowell, Marcus Waithe, Stephen Bann