Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits

Walter Pater’s fascination with the Hyperborean Apollo, who according to myth resided north of the home of the northern wind, is explored in two of his pieces of short fiction, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893). The essay discusses some of Pater’s complex dialogue with V...

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Main Author: Lene Østermark-Johansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2014-09-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/1520