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Ruskin's God

Part of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Author: Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton

Date Published: November 2006
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521026819

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Ruskin's God is the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had on his many and varied writings. Part I, "The Author of Modern Painters," covers the first half of his career, when he was an Evangelical Christian and aimed to teach people how to see paintings, buildings and landscapes. In Part II, "Victorian Solomon," Michael Wheeler shows how in his later writings Ruskin, drawing on ancient wisdom, aimed to teach people how to live.
- First full-length study of Ruskin's religion, essential for anyone studying Ruskin and his influence on nineteenth-century literature and culture
- First major book to draw on vast Ruskin archive now collected at Lancaster University
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"...a thorough study of the many aspects of Ruskin's theology..." The Art Book
"a scholarly tour de force in the study of nineteenth-century literature and religion." Christianity & Literature
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026819
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 25 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of plates
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: 'To enlighten a People by your Wisdom': the divine commission
Part I. The author of Modern Painters:
2. 'The Shechinah of the blue': in God's temple
3. 'The Peace of God' and a Christian theory of art
4. 'The Book-Temple': a Protestant beholder of St Mark's
5. 'True sacred art' and Christ the great high priest
6. Solomon's 'Christian royalty': a rite of passage in Turin
Part II. Victorian Solomon:
7. Solomon's 'maxims concerning wealth'
8. Science, myth and a creative wisdom
9. St George, St Francis and the rule of love and wisdom
10. Fragments of Christendom in Venice and Amiens
11. The 'visible Heaven' and apocalyptic wisdom
Appendix
Index.
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Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton