Ruskins Mythic Queen

Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruskin's Mythic Queen written by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weltman (English, Louisiana State University) demonstrates that the Victorians used mythic discourse to subvert gender dichotomy. She focuses on the work of Ruskin, maintaining that even though he is known to many as the foremost voice extolling separate spheres for men and women, his mythopoetic prose surprisingly yields tools to break down fixed categories of gender. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210554
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Sara Atwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317060601
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruskin's Educational Ideals written by Sara Atwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines Ruskin's varied roles in education, the development of his teaching philosophy and style, and his vision for educational reform. Atwood maintains that the letters of Fors Clavigera constitute not only a treatise on education but a dynamic educational experiment, serving to set forth Ruskin's ideas about education while simultaneously educating his readers according to those very ideas. Closely examining Ruskin's life and writings, her argument traces the development of his moral aesthetic and increasing involvement in social reform; his methods and approach as an art instructor; and his dissatisfaction with contemporary educational practice. A chapter on Ruskin's legacy takes account of his influence on late Victorian and Edwardian educators, including J. H. Whitehouse and the Bembridge School; the Ruskin colonies in Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia; and the relevance of Ruskin's ideas to ongoing educational debates about teacher pay, state/national testing, retention, and the theory of the competent child. Historically well-grounded and forcefully argued, Atwood's study is not only a valuable contribution to scholarship on Ruskin and the Victorian period but an enjoinder for us to reconsider how Ruskin's educational philosophy might be of benefit today.

Author : Margaret Homans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573795
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking Queen Victoria written by Margaret Homans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays goes beyond the facts of biography and official history to explore the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, meanings she held for her subjects around the world and even for those outside her empire, who made of her a multifaceted icon serving their social and economic needs. In her paradoxical position as neither consort nor king, she baffled expectations throughout her reign. She was a model of wifely decorum and solid middle-class values, but she also became the focus of anxieties about powerful women, and - increasingly - of anger about Britain's imperial aims. Each essay analyses a different aspect of this complex and fascinating figure. Contributors include noted scholars in the field of literature, cultural studies, art history, and women's studies.

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230522483
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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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 225 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.

Author : Andrew D. Radford
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022353
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Girls written by Andrew D. Radford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeter's loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and catastrophic captivity by Dis, God of the Dead, had both huge personal and aesthetic significance. This book, in addition to scrutinising canonical and less well-known texts by male authors such as Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, also focuses on unjustly neglected women writers – Mary Webb and Mary Butts – who utilised occult tropes to relocate themselves culturally, and especially in Butts's case to recover and restore a forgotten legacy, the myth of matriarchal origins. These novelists are placed in relation not only to one another but also to Victorian archaeologists and especially to Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), one of the first women to distinguish herself in the history of British Classical scholarship and whose anthropological approach to the study of early Greek art and religion both influenced – and became transformed by – the literature. Rather than offering a teleological argument that moves lock-step through the decades,The Lost Girls proposes chapters that detail specific engagements with Demeter-Persephone through which to register distinct literary-cultural shifts in uses of the myth and new insights into the work of particular writers.

Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113710676X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England written by Carole Levin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. The collection also deals with a number of literary representations of earlier historical queens such as Cleopatra, and semi-historical ones such as Gertrude, Tamora, and Lady Macbeth, and such fictional ones as Hermione and the queen of Cymbeline, all of them Shakespeare characters. This fascinating look at Renaissance queens also examines myth and folklore, Romantic or Victorian representations, and the depictions of queens like Catherine de Medici of France in twentieth century film.

Author : Jessica R. Feldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052112090X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Modernism written by Jessica R. Feldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Examining the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist,)and William James (philosopher and psychologist), Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300092601
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sesame and Lilies written by John Ruskin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin's 'Sesame and Lilies', first published in 1865, is a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. This volume reunites the two halves of the work: 'Of Kings' Treasuries' and 'Of Queens' Gardens', along with essays placing the work in historical context.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Prose written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: