Adams, James Eli. “Pater’s Muscular Aestheticism,”
in Hall, Donald E. (ed.). Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian
Age (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994): 215-240.
Adams argues that though many would consider that the views of Kingsley and
Walter Pater have little in common and that much of Kingsley's muscularity
was antipathetic to Pater, the latter's thoughts on Greece bear strong connections
to Kingsley's muscular aesthetic of the male body. In particular, Kingsley's
muscular Christianity and celebration of the male body in effect constituted
"an essential precedent for Pater's aestheticism" (235).
Walter Pater
;
Manliness
; Sexuality
;
Greek Art
; Winckelmann
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