Search Results - "John Ruskin"

John Ruskin / by Ballantyne, Andrew

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John Ruskin's political economy by Henderson, Willie, 1947-

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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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Style and the nineteenth-century British critic sincere mannerisms / by Camlot, Jason, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : sincere mannerisms -- The character of the periodical press -- The origins of modern earnest -- The downfall of authority and the new magazine -- Thomas de Quincey's periodical rhetoric -- The political economy of style : John Ruskin and critical truth -- The Victorian critic as naturalizing agent -- The style is the man : style theory in the 1890s.…”
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Reconnecting with John Muir essays in post-pastoral practice / by Gifford, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Keeping faith with the source -- Muir as practitioner of the post-pastoral -- Muir's multiple discourses -- Teaching environmentalism through writing -- Muir's mode of reading John Ruskin -- Rick Bass's fiber as a post-pastoral georgic -- Walking into narrative scholarship -- Teaching post-pastoral poetry of landscape -- Tests of character in Cold Mountain -- Muir's fourfold concept of the mountaineer -- Toward a post-pastoral mountaineering literature -- Post-pastoral practice at the crossroads of ecocriticism.…”
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Out of place Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity / by Baucom, Ian, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The House of Memory: John Ruskin and the Architecture of Englishness -- Ch. 2. …”
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The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton / by Turner, James, 1946-

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