John Ruskin and the Victorian woman writer
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John Ruskin and the Victorian woman writer
（Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature）
Routledge, 2025
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the book provides detailed biographical contexts for each of these relationships before considering the interplay of each woman's writing with Ruskin's. Focusing on literature, art, economics, and gender, it offers close readings of a selection of each woman's oeuvre alongside Ruskin's prose to demonstrate the affinities and the moments of disagreement between Ruskin and these writers. Though primarily aimed at an academic audience, the book will also be of interest to general readers with a developed interest in nineteenth-century culture. ...
Contents of Works
- "My verses catch fire from you" : poetry, Italy, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- "The truth of infinite value" : realism, religion, and George Eliot
- A friendship of "mutual esteem" : correspondence, consumption, and Elizabeth Gaskell
- "There is no friend like a... brother"? : art, women, and the Rossettis