Praeterita
$40.41
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
7 June 2012
Summary
‘For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.’
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the language. Ruskin’s incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious me…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192802415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192802410 |
| Author: | John Ruskin, Francis O'Gorman |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 7 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 126mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
The editing and annotation are exemplary
a valuable addition to Ruskin studies … Francis O’Gorman is a sensitive, intelligent and eloquent guide to Praeterita … detailed and helpful endnotes. * The Companion *
The editing and annotation are exemplary * Jan Marsh, Times Literary Supplement *
Thanks to O’Gorman, the experience of reading Praeterita has achieved luminous transparency, and it is to be hoped that his new, very finely edited edition finds its way on to book shelves and into syllabuses … O’Gorman’s introduction deserves special praise … The explanatory notes provide essential guidance and clarification, especially for the neophyte reader of Ruskin. * Carlyle Studies Annual *
John Ruskin
Francis O’Gorman has published widely on Ruskin, including Ruskin and Gender, co-edited with Dinah Birch (2002). He has edited and contributed to Blackwell’s Critical Guide to the Victorian Novel (2002) and the Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel (2004). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture.
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