The languorous critic

New Literary History

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 547-564

  Hanson, Ellis ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84870331366     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2012.0032     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1970), 27.
2. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You," Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2003), 124-25.
3. This distinction between "affect" and "mood" is drawn from René Rosfort and Giovanni Stanghellini's conception of the "horizontal absorption" and "global feeling-states" of moods in "The Person in between Moods and Affects," Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16, no. 3 (2009): 257-58.
4. See, for example, "Confession," "Tristesses de la lune," "Femmes damnées," "Un Voyage à Cythère," "Le Jet d'eau," in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (1857);
5. "Laus Veneris" and "Anactoria" in Algernon Charles Swinburne's Poems and Ballads (1866);
6. and Paul Verlaine's quintessentially decadent poem, "Langueur" (1883).
7. Roland Barthes, "Languor," A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 155.
8. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9, Essays-Philosophy (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904).
9. Barthes, Le discours amoureux: Seminar à l'École pratique des hautes études, 1974-1976 (Paris: Seuil, 2007). The refusal of the will-to-possess, non-vouloir-saisir, appears only in passing, on p. 245, as a mysterious parenthetical abbreviation, "NVS," with no explanation.
10. Barthes, "Union," Lover's Discourse, 228.
11. Barthes, "Languor," Lover's Discourse, 155-56.
12. Pierre Saint-Amand, "Barthes's Laziness," Yale Journal of Criticism 14, no. 2 (2001): 520, 523.
13. Barthes, The Rustle of Language, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986), 365, original text in italics.
14. This passage is partially quoted in Saint-Amand, "Barthes's Laziness," 520.
15. Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (New York: Noonday, 1975), 67.
16. Quoted in Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), 50.
17. W. H. Mallock, The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House (New York: Scribner and Welford, 1878), 27, 266, 278.
18. John Buchan, unsigned review, Spectator 109 (25 June 1910): 1075-76.
19. Paul Elmer More, The Drift of Romanticism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 98.
20. Virginia Woolf, "The Narrow Bridge of Art," in Collected Essays (1927; London: Chatto & Windus, 1966), 2:223.
21. T. S. Eliot, "Arnold and Pater," Bookman 72, no. 1 (September, 1930): 7.
22. Eliot has elided Pater's relevant phrase "that endless regret." The passage is from Pater's essay "Coleridge" in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style (London: Macmillan, 1889), 63.
23. John Addington Symonds, letter to Horatio Forbes Brown, 3 March 1873, in The Letters of John Addington Symonds, ed. Herbert M. Schueller (Detroit, MI: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1969), 2:273.
24. Symonds, letter to Mary Robinson, 30 March 1885. Letters 3:41
25. The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds, ed. Phyllis Grosskurth (London: Hutchinson, 1984), 272.
26. A. C. Benson, Walter Pater (London: Macmillan, 1906), 178-79.
27. Benson, Walter Pater, 113.
28. Both of these phrases occur in "Two Early French Stories," The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1873; Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986), 10, 13. This text is based on the fourth edition of 1893, the last one that Pater corrected himself.
29. All references to this paragraph on the Medici sculptures are cited from Pater, "The Poetry of Michelangelo," Renaissance, 60-61.
30. Jacques Khalip, "Pater's Sadness," Raritan 20, no. 2 (2000): 136.
31. Pater, Gaston de Latour (1896; Greensboro: ELT Press, 1995), 10-11.
32. Pater, Gaston, 11.