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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education /

"This is the first book to examine John Ruskin's writing on theater. In works as celebrated as Modern Painters and obscure as Love's Meinie, Ruskin uses his voracious attendance at the theater to illustrate points about social justice, aesthetic practice, and epistemology. Opera, Shak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.