John Ruskin and Switzerland

John Ruskin and Switzerland
Title John Ruskin and Switzerland PDF eBook
Author John Hayman
Publisher Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Pages 152
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0889207852

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An authoritative work interspersed with nearly one hundred of John Ruskin’s Swiss drawings recounts his lifelong interest in Switzerland. Hayman provides a chronological account of Ruskin’s visits to Switzerland from his earliest travels in 1833 and 1835 and his frequent tours of the 1840s to the final visits in the 1880s. Of particular concern is Ruskin’s intention between approximately 1855 and 1865 to engrave his own drawings of Swiss towns for a work illustrative of Swiss history. Drawings of the historic Swiss towns in which Ruskin was most interested — Baden, Bellinzona, Brugg, Fribourg, Geneva, Laufenburg, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Rheinfelden, Schaffhausen, and Thun — are introduced by excerpts from John Murray’s A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland (1856). Hayman has traced a great many Swiss drawings Ruskin referred to in his letters and diaries and has located twenty-three previously unpublished ones which appear in his book. Ruskin’s well-documented defence of J.M.W. Turner is also brought to light as the author has juxtaposed reproductions of Turner’s sketches of Swiss towns with drawings by Ruskin. This work will not only interest scholars and students of Ruskin but should also pique the interest of Turner scholars.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin
Title John Ruskin PDF eBook
Author Alice Meynell
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 1900
Genre Authors, English
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John Ruskin

John Ruskin
Title John Ruskin PDF eBook
Author Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
Publisher
Pages 316
Release 1900
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John Ruskin

John Ruskin
Title John Ruskin PDF eBook
Author Timothy Hilton
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 1030
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780300090994

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John Ruskin, one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific. Not only did he publish some 250 works, but he also wrote lectures, diaries, and thousands of letters that have not been published. This book draws on the original source material to give a moving account of the life of this brilliant and creative man.

The Works of John Ruskin

The Works of John Ruskin
Title The Works of John Ruskin PDF eBook
Author John Ruskin
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Pages 724
Release 1912
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John Ruskin: Praeterita

John Ruskin: Praeterita
Title John Ruskin: Praeterita PDF eBook
Author Ruskin John Ruskin
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 624
Release 2019-08-07
Genre Art critics
ISBN 1474472230

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Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius. This exceptional biography - the first of Ruskin's works in the Whitehouse edition - simultaneously presents a deeply reflective portrait of an early 19th-century Protestant family - its genuine piety, its severities, its suffocating possessive affections - and the product (at once intellectually brilliant and emotionally damaged) of its educational system.

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth
Title Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth PDF eBook
Author Patrick Vincent
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 331
Release 2022-12-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009210270

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The first detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature and culture from Joseph Addison to John Ruskin, this book analyzes the aesthetic and political uses of what is commonly called the 'Swiss myth' in the parallel development of Romanticism and liberalism. The myth merged the country's legends going back to the Middle Ages with the Enlightenment image of a happy, free nation of alpine shepherds. Its unique combination of conservative, progressive, and radical associations enabled writers before the French Revolution to call for democratic reforms, whereas those coming after could refigure it as a conservative alternative to French liberté. Integrating intellectual history with literary studies, and addressing a wide range of Romantic-period texts and authors, among them Byron, the Shelleys, Hemans, Scott, Coleridge, and, above all, Wordsworth, the book argues that the myth contributed to the liberal idea of the people as a sublime yet sleeping sovereign.