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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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Unstable as water
  • "Mechanical sheep" and "monstrous powers" : John Ruskin's pantomime reality
  • "Pretty Frou-Frou" goes demon dancing : performing species and gender in Ruskin's science
  • Playground and playhouse : identity performance in Ruskin's education for girls
  • Ruskin and the Wilde life : self and other on the millennial stage
  • Conclusion : queering Ruskin.