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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