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Ruskin's God

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574143
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Ruskin's God written by Michael Wheeler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1999 book, Michael Wheeler challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing that John Ruskin's writing is underpinned by a sustained trust in divine wisdom: a trust nurtured by his imaginative engagement with King Solomon and the temple in Jerusalem, and with the wisdom literature of the Old Testament. In Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, belief in the wisdom of God the Father informed Ruskin's Evangelical natural theology and his celebration of Turner's landscape painting, while the wisdom of God the Son lay at the heart of his Christian aesthetics. Whereas 'the author of Modern Painters' sought to teach his readers how to see architecture, paintings and landscapes, the 'Victorian Solomon' whose religious life was troubled, and who created various forms of modern wisdom literature in works such as Unto this Last, The Queen of the Air and Fors Clavigera, wished to teach them how to live.

Human-Built World

Author : Thomas P. Hughes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612066X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Human-Built World written by Thomas P. Hughes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.

Late Ruskin: New Contexts

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

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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.

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009268856
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age written by Michael Wheeler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.

New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131756930X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals) written by Robert Hewison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Ruskin’s work and influence is now a feature of several critical disciplines. New Approaches to Ruskin, first published in 1981, reflects this, gathering some of the most distinguished writers on Ruskin and joining them with others who have undertaken significant research in the field of Ruskin studies. The authors were all specially commissioned for this volume and were chosen to represent as wide a variety of approaches as possible to this key figure of nineteenth-century culture. This book is ideal for students of art history.

Ruskin's Principles of Art Criticism

Author : Ida Maria Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ruskin's Principles of Art Criticism written by Ida Maria Street and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bible References of John Ruskin

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Bible References of John Ruskin written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of John Ruskin

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of John Ruskin: The Guild and museum of St. George

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: The Guild and museum of St. George written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.

The Venice Myth

Author : David Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317505
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Venice Myth written by David Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.

The Works of John Ruskin: Praeterita. Dilecta

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: Praeterita. Dilecta written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.

The Vulgarization of Art

Author : Linda C. Dowling
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916347
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Vulgarization of Art written by Linda C. Dowling and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Green Victorians

Author : Vicky Albritton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634004X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Green Victorians written by Vicky Albritton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community. At the center of their social experiment was the charismatic art critic and political economist John Ruskin. Albritton and Albritton Jonsson show how Ruskin’s followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from hand spinning and woodworking to gardening, archaeology, and pedagogy. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for there was a dark side to Ruskin’s community as well—racist thinking, paternalism, and technophobia. Richly illustrated, Green Victorians breaks new ground, connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin’s utopian community with the problems of ethical consumption then and now.

The Works of John Ruskin: Fors clavigera; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: Fors clavigera; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Broken Estate

Author : James Wood
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0804151903
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Estate written by James Wood and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of religious and philosophical belief. He suggests that the steady ebb of the sea of faith has much to do with the revo- lutionary power of the novel, as it has developed over the last two centuries. To read James Wood is to be shocked into both thinking and feeling how great our debt to the novel is. In the grand tradition of criticism, Wood's work is both commentary and literature in its own right--fiercely written, polemical, and richly poetic in style. This book marks the debut of a masterly literary voice.

Visionary of the Word

Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134276
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Visionary of the Word written by Brian Yothers and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary of the Word brings together the latest scholarship on Herman Melville’s treatment of religion across his long career as a writer of fiction and poetry. The volume suggests the broad range of Melville’s religious concerns, including his engagement with the denominational divisions of American Christianity, his dialogue with transatlantic currents in nineteenth-century religious thought, his consideration of theological and philosophical questions related to the problem of evil and determinism versus free will, and his representation of the global contact among differing faiths and cultures. These essays constitute a capacious response to the many avenues through which Melville interacted with religious faith, doubt, and secularization throughout his career, advancing our understanding of Melville as a visionary interpreter of religious experience who remains resonant in our own religiously complex era.

Style and the Nineteenth-century British Critic

Author : Jason Camlot
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754653110
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Style and the Nineteenth-century British Critic written by Jason Camlot and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism - one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression."--BOOK JACKET.