The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin - Hardcover

Kenneth Daley

9780821413821: The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821413821 ISBN 13: 9780821413821

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2001

Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close intellectual relationship between Walter Pater and John Ruskin, the two most important Victorian critics of art. Kenneth Daley explores the work and thought of both writers in context with other Victorian writers, and enlarges the issues at stake between them, connecting these issues to ongoing artistic, cultural, and political concerns of the modern world. Professor Daley gives a more finely honed picture than ever before of romanticism's emergence as a literary concept in Victorian England, detailing the political differences that characterize the opposition between John Ruskin and his younger contemporary, Walter Pater, over the nature of romanticism. Individual chapters reassess the Victorian reception of such romantic figures as Wordsworth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Daley demonstrates how Pater's "modern" reading of romanticism emerged from Ruskin's distrust of romanticism and from Ruskin's arguments and examples defining pathetic fallacy. His discussion of Ruskin's Oxford lectures and their timing in Pater's developing career refresh the intersections of the two bodies of work and the portrait of the Victorian period in general.

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Review:

"The Rescue of Romanticism is a deeply important book. It fills a major gap in the study of both Victorian literature and the larger history of Romanticism, of which Pater and Ruskin are the major figures between High Romanticism proper and modernism." - Perry Meisel, New York University"

Synopsis:

The fascinating relationship of two contemporary Victorian critics Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of Romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close intellectual relationship between Walter Pater and John Ruskin, the two most important Victorian critics of art. Kenneth Daley explores the work and thought of both writers in context with other Victorian writers, and enlarges the issues at stake between them, connecting these issues to ongoing artistic, cultural, and political concerns of the modern world. Professor Daley gives a more finely honed picture than ever before of romanticism's emergence as a literary concept in Victorian England, detailing the political differences that characterize the opposition between John Ruskin and his younger contemporary, Walter Pater, over the nature of romanticism. Individual chapters reassess the Victorian reception of such romantic figures as Wordsworth, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.

Daley demonstrates how Pater's "modern" reading of romanticism emerged from Ruskin's distrust of romanticism and from Ruskin's arguments and examples defining pathetic fallacy. His discussion of Ruskin's Oxford lectures and their timing in Pater's developing career refresh the intersections of the two bodies of work and the portrait of the Victorian period in general.

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