Marius and the Varieties of Stoic Will: "Can the will itself be an organ of knowledge, of vision?"

Abstract

Narrative, the deliberate making and unmaking of significance in language, is one of the means human beings have of possessing themselves or of refusing to be possessed. The brilliance and variety of Victorian narrative testifies not only to the genius of the individual narrators, but also to the cultural and personal chasms of un-meaning into which they gazed. Distinctive features of the narrative pattern in Pater's Marius the Epicurean provide an insight into the intellectual and cultural environment of the period we can get from no other source. I intend to work backwards from the narrative to the problems and situations it was meant to address.

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