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Ruskin
The Genesis of Invention

Author: Sheila Emerson

Date Published: February 2010
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521128674

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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.
- 'No critic has ever so sensitively articulated the origins and particular qualities of Ruskin's genius' - John D. Rosenberg
- The development of a child prodigy into a famous adult denying his inventive past
- The effects of early literary, familial, sexual and social experiences on the shaping of a major writer's identity
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- Date Published: February 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521128674
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Looking Ahead:
1. Interrelations (1823–29)
2. Laws of Motion (1829–33)
3. Disciplines (1833–35)
4. Leading Lines (1830–36)
Part II: Looking Back
5. Separations (1829–49)
6. Unlawful Motions (1843–80)
7. The Gender of Invention (1871–74)
8. The Invention of Genesis (1885–89).
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Sheila Emerson