Ruskin: The Genesis of Invention

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994

0521418070 / 9780521418072

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Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Although John Ruskin is widely considered to have produced some of the greatest prose in English, there has been no extended study of how he learned to write or of the language with which he represents his learning. This book begins with the prodigiously inventive child who looks ahead to what he will achieve, and ends with the adult who looks to his past for proof that he has never been inventive. Far from a simple about-face, Ruskin's self-denial is a culmination and extension of the art that he mastered in youth, and it is one of the most remarkable acts of self-representation in all of Victorian prose. Drawing on Ruskin's own sources as well as on more recent directions in critical theory, Professor Emerson reveals the effects of early literary, familial, sexual and social experiences on the shaping of a major writer's identity.

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Title
Ruskin: The Genesis of Invention
Author
Emerson, Sheila
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication year
1994
Dust jacket
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0521418070
ISBN 13
9780521418072
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