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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education
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"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 i...
"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, Shakespeare, pantomime, French comedies, juggling acts, and dance prompt his fascination with performed identities that cross boundaries of gender, race, nation, and species. These theatrical examples also reveal the primacy of performance to his understanding of science and education."--Jacket
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- Creator
- Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
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- Project MUSE Open Access ebooks
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007]
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- ©[2007]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (177 pages): illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9780814272312, 0814210554, 0814272312, 9780814210550, 9780814291344, 0814291341
- OCLC
- on1083082552
- Open Access
- 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
Subjects
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Children's Subject Heading
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts.
Children's Subject Heading
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Science.
Children's Subject Heading
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Education.
Children's Subject Heading
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Political and social views.
Children's Subject Heading
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Political and social views.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Education.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Science.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Role Playing
Medical Subject Heading
- Feminism in literature.
- Role playing.
- Self in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.