Walter Pater, Appreciations: with an Essay on Style

Billie Andrew Inman (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1889

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Commentary / Criticism (literary)
Essays/ Lectures (any)

Resources

Save to Bookshelf

Walter Pater's first title for the collection of essays that he prepared for publication in 1889 was “On Style, With other studies in literature” [Evans, 1970, p. 97]. On October 18, after the type had been set for the book and the proofs returned by Pater, Frederick Macmillan, the publisher, wrote Pater: “I understand from Clark [the printer] that he is still waiting for the return ‘for press' of the title page of your new book” [Seiler,

The Book Beautiful

, 1999, p. 102]. Pater quickly sent the last-minute title

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

, and the book appeared on 16 November 1889.

Appreciations

was an eye-catching word, because it had never before been used in England as the title of a book of essays. Several of the reviewers felt the need to interpret it. For…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

7711 words

Citation: Inman, Billie Andrew. "Appreciations: with an Essay on Style". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 January 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9862, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Walter Pater, Appreciations: with an Essay on Style

Dates

Places

Genres and Modes

Resources

Save this article

Leave Feedback