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Zusatztext an invaluable selection ... hugely helpful annotations Informationen zum Autor Richard Lansdown is a graduate of University College London. He is the author of three books on Lord Byron, one with Cambridge, the other two with Oxford University Press, and numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature, from Austen to Ibsen and Hardy to Berlioz and Delacroix. A New Scene of Thought: Studies in Romantic Realism was published in 2016, and Literature and Truth: Imaginative Literature as a Medium for Ideas in 2018, following on from The Autonomy of Literature in 2001. He taught in Finland and Australia before moving to The Netherlands in 2017. Klappentext This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and treatises to reviews, correspondence, and critical notes. Zusammenfassung This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and treatises to reviews, correspondence, and critical notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chronology Further Reading The Text and the Selection Ruskin's Artists and Architects: A Catalogue I. The Aesthete from The Poetry of Architecture; or The Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in Its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character: Chapter 6, 'The Cottage-Concluding Remarks' (1837) 'Remarks on the Present State of Meteorological of Science' (1839) from Modern Painters, Volume I, Part II, Of Truth: Section ii., 'Of General Truths', Chapter 2, 'Of Truth of Colour'; Section iv., 'Of Truth of Earth', Chapter 4, 'Of the Foreground' (1843) from Modern Painters, Volume II, Part III, Of Ideas of Beauty: Section i., 'Of the Theoretic Faculty', Chapter 1, 'Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty'; Chapter 2, 'Of the Theoretic Faculty as Concerned with Pleasures of Sense' (1846) from The Stones of Venice, Volume I, The Foundations: Chapter 1, 'The Quarry', Chapter 30, 'The Vestibule' (1851) The Pre-Raphaelite Artists: To the Editor of the Times, 13 May 1851 from The Stones of Venice, Volume II, The Sea-Stories: Chapter 4, 'St Mark's', Chapter 6, 'The Nature of Gothic' (1853) from The Stones of Venice, Volume III, The Fall: Chapter 1, 'Early Renaissance', Chapter 2, 'Roman Renaissance', Chapter 4, 'Conclusion' (1853) The Light of the World: To the Editor of the Times, 5 May 1854 from Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853: Lecture 1, 'Architecture' (1854) The Opening of the Crystal Palace, Considered in Some of its Relations to the Prospects of Art (1854) from Modern Painters, Volume III, Part IV, Of Many Things: Chapter 4, 'Of the False Ideal:-First, Religious'; Chapter 12, 'Of the Pathetic Fallacy' (1856) from Modern Painters, Volume IV, Part V, Of Mountain Beauty: Chapter 1, 'Of the Turnerian Picturesque'; Chapter 19, 'The Mountain Gloom' (1856) from The Harbours of England: Chapter 1 (1856) from Notes on the Royal Academy: 'The Scapegoat' (1856) from Notes on the Royal Academy: 'A Dream of the Past' (1857) from The Elements of Drawing: Letter 3, 'On Colour and Composition' (1857) from Notes on the Turner Gallery at Marlborough House: 'Appendix' (1857) from Notes on the Royal Academy: 'Water-Colour Societies' (1859) from The Two Paths: Lectures on Art and its Application to Decoration and Manufacture: Lecture 3, 'Modern Manufacture and Design'; Lecture 5, 'The Work of Iron' (1859) from Modern Painters, Volume V, Part IX, Of Ideas of Relation: Section ii., 'Of Invention Spiritua...
