Search Results - "John Ruskin"

Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education / by Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957-

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.…”
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The Lost Chord : Essays on Victorian Music /

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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

Table of Contents: “…Foul matter: Edwin Chadwick; John Ruskin, and mid-Victorian Aesthesis -- Dirty pictures: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, and Victorian Sanitation of Fine Art -- The Sanitary narrative: Victorian reform fiction and the putresence of the picturesque -- Victorian dust traps -- The surgical arts: aesthesia and anaesthesia in late-Victorian medical fiction -- Aesthetic anachronisms: Mary Ward's The Mating of Lydia and the persistent plot of sanitary fiction -- Intensive culture: John Ruskin, Sarah Grand, and the aesthetics of eugenics -- On methods, materials, and meaning.…”
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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Table of Contents: “…"Form Against Force": Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin; 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son; Part III SCALE.…”
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