Ruskin and Gender [Paperback]

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Textual Note Introduction: D.Birch & F.O'Gorman Manliness and The History of Ruskin In Love: Writing Ruskin's Masculinity From W.G. Collingwood to Kate Millett; F.O'Gorman The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's Lost Jewels ; C.Robson The Foxglove and the Rose: Ruskin's Involute of Childhood; L.Smith Ruskin, Gautier, and the Feminization of Venice; J.B. Bullen The Feminist Origins of 'Of Queens' Gardens'; L.H.Peterson Ruskin's Womanly Mind ; D.Birch 'What Teachers Do You Give Your Girls'? Ruskin and Women's Education; D.Birch 'Any Day That You're a Good Boy': Ruskin's Patronage, Rossetti's Expectations; J.Bristow Pantomime Truth and Gender Performance: John Ruskin on Theatre; S.A.Weltman Images of Proustian Inversion from Ruskin; E.Eells Selected Bibliography IndexJOSEPH BRISTOW Professor of English, University of California, Los AngelesJ.B. BULLEN Professor of English, University of ReadingEMILY EELLS Ma?tre de conf?rences, English Department, University of Paris X, NanterreLINDA H. PETERSON Professor of English, Yale UniversityCATHERINE ROBSON Associate Professor of English, University of California, DavisLINDSAY SMITH Professor of English, University of SussexSHARON ARONOFSKY WELTMAN Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University