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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Main Author: Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (177 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780814272312
Access:Open Access