Ruskin and Gender

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.

List of contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Textual Note Introduction: D.Birch & F.O'Gorman Manliness and The History of Ruskin In Love: Writing Ruskin's Masculinity From W.G. Collingwood to Kate Millett; F.O'Gorman The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's Lost Jewels ; C.Robson The Foxglove and the Rose: Ruskin's Involute of Childhood; L.Smith Ruskin, Gautier, and the Feminization of Venice; J.B. Bullen The Feminist Origins of 'Of Queens' Gardens'; L.H.Peterson Ruskin's Womanly Mind ; D.Birch 'What Teachers Do You Give Your Girls'? Ruskin and Women's Education; D.Birch 'Any Day That You're a Good Boy': Ruskin's Patronage, Rossetti's Expectations; J.Bristow Pantomime Truth and Gender Performance: John Ruskin on Theatre; S.A.Weltman Images of Proustian Inversion from Ruskin; E.Eells Selected Bibliography Index

About the author

JOSEPH BRISTOW Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
J.B. BULLEN Professor of English, University of Reading
EMILY EELLS Maître de conférences, English Department, University of Paris X, Nanterre
LINDA H. PETERSON Professor of English, Yale University
CATHERINE ROBSON Associate Professor of English, University of California, Davis
LINDSAY SMITH Professor of English, University of Sussex
SHARON ARONOFSKY WELTMAN Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University

Summary

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.

Product details

• Authors: Dina Birch, Dinah Birch, Francis O'Gorman
• Assisted by: Birch (Editor), D Birch (Editor), D. Birch (Editor), Dinah Birch (Editor), O'Gorman (Editor), O'Gorman (Editor), F. O'Gorman (Editor), Francis O'Gorman (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349428908
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42890-8
• No. of pages: 211
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 211 p. 4 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Women, Gender Studies, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Sociology, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Writing, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Victorian era