Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education /
"This is the first book to examine John 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, Shak...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2007]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Full text available: |
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Summary: | "This is the first book to examine John 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."--Jacket |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (177 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780814272312 |
Access: | Open Access |