Late Ruskin New Contexts

Download Late Ruskin New Contexts full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Late Ruskin New Contexts ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Late Ruskin: New Contexts

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351791338
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Late Ruskin: New Contexts by : Francis O'Gorman

Download or read book Late Ruskin: New Contexts written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized readings of important texts and themes from that late period, 1860-1889, discussing in detail works including Unto this Last (1860), the Lectures on Art (1870), Fors Clavigera (1871-1884), and The Bible of Amiens (1880-85), and considering key themes such as Ruskin's politicized regard for Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1870s, and the complex topic of Ruskin and manliness. Claiming new and distinctive importance for this period of Ruskin's work, both in terms of Ruskin's development as a writer and his place in Victorian culture as it moved toward modernity, this book is the first solely devoted to the prolific later years, and draws on much unpublished material.

Ruskin and Gender

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230522483
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ruskin and Gender by : Dinah Birch

Download or read book Ruskin and Gender written by Dinah Birch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.

Repositioning Victorian Sciences

Author : David Clifford
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843312123
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Repositioning Victorian Sciences by : David Clifford

Download or read book Repositioning Victorian Sciences written by David Clifford and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.

The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107054893
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin by : Francis O'Gorman

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).

The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351880616
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century by : Francis O'Gorman

Download or read book The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, the essays in The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century propose a re-examination of these relationships. Together, they expose some of the significant and complex ways in which key aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read, and transacted within the post-Romantic nineteenth century. Individual essays examine the influence of the work of Pope and the eighteenth-century novelists such as Johnson, Chatterton, and Rousseau on a range of Victorian writers and cultural productions, including Dickens, Eliot, Oliphant, Ruskin, historical fiction, late Victorian art criticism, The English Men of Letters series, and the Oxford English Dictionary. The contributors challenge long-held views about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth. This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with a Preface by David Fairer, represents a unique approach to this area of literary history and offers new perspectives on the nature and methodology of 'periodization'. While it is obviously of great interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian literature, it will also appeal to readers more broadly concerned with questions of literary influence, periodization, and historiography.

Thomas Hardy in Context

Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196485
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy in Context by : Phillip Mallett

Download or read book Thomas Hardy in Context written by Phillip Mallett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.

Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131552404X
Total Pages : 2332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century by : Various Authors

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 2332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues eight books that explore the social and political thought of the nineteenth century. The titles in this set, originally published between 1943 and 2001, examine several of the important figures of the time, including Jeremey Bentham and Thomas Carlyle, whilst also examining political movements and the emergence and growth of libertarian thought. This set will be of particular interest to students of social and political history.

The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George

Author : Mark Frost
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783082836
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George by : Mark Frost

Download or read book The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George written by Mark Frost and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work in Ruskin studies provides for the first time an authoritative study of Ruskin’s Guild of St George. It introduces new material that is important in its own right as a significant piece of social history, and as a means to re-examine Ruskin’s Guild idea of self-sufficient, co-operative agrarian communities founded on principles of artisanal (non-mechanised) labour, creativity and environmental sustainability. The remarkable story of William Graham and other Companions lost to Guild history provides a means to fundamentally transform our understanding of Ruskin’s utopianism.

John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education

Author : Valerie Purton
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088060
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education by : Valerie Purton

Download or read book John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education written by Valerie Purton and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin’s influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere education today. John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education brings together top international Ruskin scholars, exploring Ruskin’s many-faceted writings, pointing to some of the key educational issues raised by his work, and concluding with a powerful rereading of his ecological writing and apocalyptic vision of the earth’s future. In anticipation of the bicentennial of Ruskin’s birth in 2019, this volume makes a fresh and significant contribution to Victorian studies in the twenty-first century. It is dedicated to Dinah Birch, a much-loved Victorian specialist and authority on John Ruskin.

John Ruskin

Author : Andrew Ballantyne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780234708
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Ruskin by : Andrew Ballantyne

Download or read book John Ruskin written by Andrew Ballantyne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew Ballantyne rescues Ruskin from the dustbin of history’s trifles to reveal a deeply attuned thinker, one whose copious writings had tremendous influence on all classes of society, from roadmenders to royalty. Ballantyne examines a crucial aspect of Ruskin’s thinking: the notion that art and architecture have moral value. Telling the story of Ruskin’s childhood and enduring devotion to his parents—who fostered his career as a writer on art and architecture—he explores the circumstances that led to Ruskin’s greatest works, such as Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, and Unto This Last. He follows Ruskin through his altruistic ventures with the urban poor, to whom he taught drawing, motivated by a profound conviction that art held the key to living a worthwhile life. Ultimately, Ballantyne weaves Ruskin’s story into a larger one about Victorian society, a time when the first great industrial cities took shape and when art could finally reach beyond the wealthy elite and touch the lives of everyday people.

John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption

Author : David Melville Craig
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925585
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption by : David Melville Craig

Download or read book John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption written by David Melville Craig and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic life and his public practice of moral imagination. With its reading of Ruskin as an innovative contributor to a tradition of ethics concerned with character, culture, and community, this book recasts established interpretations of Ruskin's place in nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics, challenges nostalgic diagnoses of the supposed historical loss of virtue ethics, and demonstrates the limitations of any politics that eschews common purpose as vital to individual agency and social welfare. Although Ruskin's moralistic efforts did not always allow for democratic individuality, equality, and contestation, his eclecticism, Craig argues, helps to correct these problems. Further, Ruskin's interdisciplinary explorations of beauty, work, nature, religion, politics, and economic value reveal the ways in which his insights into the practical connections between aesthetics and ethics, and culture and character, might be applied to today's debates about liberal modernity today. With the triumph of global capitalism, and the near-silence of any opposing voice, Ruskin's model of an engaged reading of culture and his public practice of moral imagination deserve renewed attention. This book provides students in religion, politics, and social theory with a timely reintroduction to this timeless figure.

Performing the Victorian

Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210554
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Performing the Victorian by : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

Download or read book Performing the Victorian written by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman is the first book to examine Ruskin's writing on theater. In works as celebrated as Modern Painters and obscure as Love's Meinie, Ruskin uses his voracious attendance at the theater to illustrate points about social justice, aesthetic practice, and epistemology. Opera, Shakespeare, pantomime, French comedies, juggling acts, and dance prompt his fascination with performed identities that cross boundaries of gender, race, nation, and species. These theatrical examples also reveal the primacy of performance to his understanding of science and education. In addition to Ruskin on theater, Performing the Victorian interprets recent theater portraying Ruskin (The Invention of Love, The Countess, the opera Modern Painters) as merely a Victorian prude or pedophile against which contemporary culture defines itself. These theatrical depictions may be compared to concurrent plays about Ruskin's friend and student Oscar Wilde (Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Judas Kiss). Like Ruskin, Wilde is misrepresented on the fin-de-millennial stage, in his case anachronistically as an icon of homosexual identity. These recent characterizations offer a set of static identity labels that constrain contemporary audiences more rigidly than the mercurial selves conjured in the prose of either Ruskin or Wilde.

John Ruskin, J.M.W. Turner and the Art of Water

Author : Carmen Casaliggi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527588246
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Ruskin, J.M.W. Turner and the Art of Water by : Carmen Casaliggi

Download or read book John Ruskin, J.M.W. Turner and the Art of Water written by Carmen Casaliggi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses Ruskin’s and Turner’s mutual interest in the theme of water, with particular reference to The Harbours of England (1856), Ruskin’s book on ships and marine art to which are appended Turner’s 12 illustrations of the English ports. By considering existing scholarly works on Ruskin and Turner, the book begins by demonstrating that the two, despite their widely acknowledged relations, have rarely been examined in conjunction. It raises the question as to how the subject of water inspired the intellectual, aesthetic, philosophical, and scientific climate of the nineteenth century, both in Britain and abroad, and acknowledges the significance of the relationship between Ruskin and Turner in the context of aquatic studies. Ruskin’s childhood fascination with water is examined in detail, while the scientific and spiritual importance of the subject in Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice is also emphasised and read in parallel with The Harbours of England, a detailed account of which is given, referring to both text and illustrations. Turner’s role in Ruskin’s understanding of specific water-pictures is also reconstructed. The book demonstrates that water is important as a multifaceted compendium of contemporary themes, for tradition, progress, nationalism, and patriotism find their iconography in its depiction. Considering the literary and painterly implications of wateriness, the text concludes with a reflection upon the significance of the study of water for Ruskin and Turner, and for their age.

Selected Writings

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192669494
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Selected Writings by : John Ruskin

Download or read book Selected Writings written by John Ruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.' Ruskin was the most powerful and influential critic of the nineteenth century. He wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth, and much besides; all his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense now as it was for his first readers. This new selection draws on the whole range of his astonishingly varied output, from the passionate celebration of J. M. W. Turner's painting in the first volume of Modern Painters (1843) to Praeterita (1885-9), the elegiac autobiography of his later years. The introduction outlines Ruskin's life and thought, and shows why he remains such a rewarding writer today. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Building Ruskin's Italy

Author : Stephen Kite
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409437963
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Building Ruskin's Italy by : Stephen Kite

Download or read book Building Ruskin's Italy written by Stephen Kite and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin's still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere), Stephen Kite offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of Ruskin's architectural thinking and observation in the context of Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest intensity. Kite presents the complex story of Ruskin's visual thinking in architecture as a narrative of deepening interpretation and representation, focusing on the humbler monuments of Italy. He shows how Ruskin's early picturesque naturalism was transformed by the realisation that to understand the built realities confronting him in Italy demanded a closer engagement with the substance of the stones themselves; reflecting Ruskin's sense of his task as a near-archaeological gleaning and gathering of remains 'hidden in many a grass grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal'.

A Companion to Romance

Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470999160
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Companion to Romance by : Corinne Saunders

Download or read book A Companion to Romance written by Corinne Saunders and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance’s special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples

Unfolding the South

Author : Alison Chapman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719061301
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Unfolding the South by : Alison Chapman

Download or read book Unfolding the South written by Alison Chapman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new version of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods that corrects traditional male-centred accounts.