John Ruskin And The Victorian Woman Writer

Author : Anne Longmuir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781040104064

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer by Anne Longmuir Pdf

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the book provides detailed biographical contexts for each of these relationships before considering the interplay of each woman’s writing with Ruskin’s. Focusing on literature, art, economics, and gender, it offers close readings of a selection of each woman’s oeuvre alongside Ruskin’s prose to demonstrate the affinities and the moments of disagreement between Ruskin and these writers. Though primarily aimed at an academic audience, the book will also be of interest to general readers with a developed interest in nineteenth-century culture. It advances readers’ understandings of the complex web of influence that existed between Ruskin and women writers in the 1850s and 1860s, establishing the opportunities that Ruskin’s art theory offered women writers engaged with social questions and the apparent influence of these writers on Ruskin’s own emerging political economy. By analysing women writers’ responses to Ruskin’s work—and his response to theirs—this book complicates and challenges assumptions about Ruskin’s supposedly troubled relationship with women.

Author : K. Newey,J. Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230276512

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre by K. Newey,J. Richards Pdf

This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century.

Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107064843

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing by Linda H. Peterson Pdf

Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9358593032

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Sesame And Lilies by John Ruskin Pdf

Sesame and Lilies' is a profound collection of lectures written by the influential Victorian art critic and social thinker, John Ruskin. The book is divided into two sections: "Of Kings' Treasuries" and "Of Queens' Gardens," each exploring distinct themes related to education, literature, and gender roles. Throughout the book, Ruskin's writing is marked by eloquence, philosophical depth, and a strong moral compass. He explores themes of social inequality, the power of literature, and the interplay between gender, education, and culture. Ruskin's prose is thought-provoking and lyrical, drawing upon a wide range of references from literature, art, and history to support his arguments. The story remains a significant work in the field of Victorian literature and social criticism. It offers readers a profound exploration of education, the role of women, and the transformative power of literature, making it a valuable read for those interested in the intellectual and cultural climate of the Victorian era.

Author : Dinah Birch,Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230522480

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Ruskin and Gender by Dinah Birch,Francis O'Gorman Pdf

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.

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199593736

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John Pdf

Structured around three broad sections (on ‘Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology’, ‘Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief’, and ‘Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures’), the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own ‘lead’ essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today’s Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume’s essays: that is, the nature and status of ‘literary’ culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : UCAL:B2839451

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Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Vicky Albritton,Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226339986

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Green Victorians by Vicky Albritton,Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Pdf

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have sought to demonstrate how a life without constant growth might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sustainability has been largely forgotten. "Green Victorians" recovers the story of a small circle of men and women led by political economist and art critic John Ruskin. "Green Victorians" explores how Ruskin s most enthusiastic followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from painting, hand-weaving, and wood-working to gardening, archaeology, story-telling, and children s education. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for while those in Ruskin s experimental community established a thriving handicraft industry and protected the Lake District from over-development, they paid a price. Richly illustrated, "Green Victorians" breaks new ground by connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin s utopian community to the problems of ethical consumption then and now. "

Author : Maura Ives,Ann R. Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871785

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Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century by Maura Ives,Ann R. Hawkins Pdf

In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a wide range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books, calendars and gossip columns, to consider the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it. How did authors like Jane Austen, the Countess of Blessington, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Meynell, and Marie Corelli negotiate the increasing demands for public revelation of the private self? How did gender shape the posthumous participation of women writers such as Jane Austen, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Christina Rossetti in celebrity culture? These and other important questions related to the treatment of women in celebrity genres and media, and the strategies women writers used to control their public images, are taken up in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth and early twentieth century women writers achieved popular, critical, and commercial success.

Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814210550

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Performing the Victorian by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Pdf

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.

Author : Jeanne Moskal,Shannon R. Wooden
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820469270

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Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900 by Jeanne Moskal,Shannon R. Wooden Pdf

The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes quirky, often passionate writers profoundly disrupts traditional pedagogical assumptions about what constitutes «literature». This book addresses this radically changed educational landscape, offering practical, proven teaching strategies for newly «recovered» writers, both in special-topics courses and in traditional teaching environments. Moreover, it addresses the institutional issues confronting feminist scholars who teach women writers in a variety of settings and the kinds of career-altering effects the decision to teach this material can have on junior and senior scholars alike. Collectively, these essays argue that teaching noncanonical women writers invigorates the curriculum as a whole, not only by introducing the voices of women writers, but by incorporating new genres, by asking new questions about readers' assumptions and aesthetic values, and by altering the power relations between teacher and student for the better.

Author : K. Krueger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137359247

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British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930 by K. Krueger Pdf

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.

Author : John Paul M. Kanwit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081425652X

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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit Pdf

Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit examines the development of specialized art commentary in a period when art education became a national concern in Britain. The explosion of Victorian visual culture--evident in the rapid expansion of galleries and museums, the technological innovations of which photography is only the most famous, the public debates over household design, and the high profile granted to such developments as the Aesthetic Movement--provided art critics unprecedented social power. Scholarship to date, however, has often been restricted to a narrow collection of male writers on art: John Ruskin, Walter Pater, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde. By including then-influential but now lesser-known critics such as Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake, and Emilia Dilke, and by focusing on critical debates rather than celebrated figures, Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer refines our conception of when and how art criticism became a professional discipline in Britain. Jameson and Eastlake began to professionalize art criticism well before the 1860s, that is, before the date commonly ascribed to the professionalization of the discipline. Moreover, in concentrating on historical facts rather than legends about art, these women critics represent an alternative approach that developed the modern conception of art history. In a parallel development, the novelists under consideration--George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell--read a wide range of Victorian art critics and used their lessons in key moments of spectatorship. This more inclusive view of Victorian art criticism provides key insights into Victorian literary and aesthetic culture. The women critics discussed in this book helped to fashion art criticism as itself a literary genre, something almost wholly ascribed to famous male critics.

Author : Valerie Purton
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783088072

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John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education by Valerie Purton Pdf

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.