Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions- Front Cover -- Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Pater's Modern Involvement: New Editorial and Biographical Approaches -- Chapter 1: Walter Pater and the New Media: The "Child" in the House -- Introduction -- Pater's Patterns of Publication -- Pater's Writing and Contemporary Publishing Mores -- Pater and the Journals: Three Case Studies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Privileging the Later Pater: The Choice of Copy-Text for the Collected Works -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Habitus and the Multifaceted Self: Are There Different Paters? -- Pater's Vision of Biography and the Notion of Habit -- From Habit to Habitus and Figuration -- Contrasting Images of the Aesthete -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Intertextualities: The Aesthete and Contemporary Culture -- Chapter 4: Trace, Race and Grace: The Influence of Ernest Renan's Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse on Pater's Gaston de Latour -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Loveliness of Things and the Sorrow of the World: Art and Ethics in Pater and George Eliot -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater's "Sir Thomas Browne" and its Nineteenth-Century British Context -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III: Modern Interactions: Aestheticism, Desire, and Artistic Detachment -- Chapter 7: "What an interesting period ... is this we are in!": Walter Pater and the Synchronization of the "Æsthetic Life"--"The Æsthetic Life": The Folios -- Aesthetic Experience Contra "Philosophy ... turned suicidal"--"The supposed son of the age": Pater's Metropolitan Aesthete