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Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal

The journal is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others — but also test and open up the very limits of disciplinary boundaries. The link to the past and current issues can be accessed via www.informaworld.com/ncc.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Ruskin Library, Lancaster University maintains a Ruskin bibliography. This is complied by Dr Stephen Wildman, Professor of the History of Art Director and Curator, The Ruskin Library.
See http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskinlib/Documents/2006-8%20march.pdf

PUBLICATIONS

Atwood, Sara. 2008. John Ruskin on education, Infed.org: exploring informal education, lifelong learning and social action. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/john_ruskin.htm

Birch, Dinah. 2006. ‘Who wants authority?’: Ruskin as a Dissenter. The Yearbook of English Studies 36, no. 2: 65-77.

Coyle, John. 2006. Ruskin, Proust and the Art of Failure. Essays in Criticism 56, no. 1 (January): 28-49

Emerson, Hunt and Kevin Jackson. 2008. How to See. Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria: The Ruskin Foundation.
Click here to download the comic.

Gamble, Cynthia. 2008. John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads. UK: New European Publications Limited.

Gaspari, Fabienne, Lawrence Gasquet, and Laurence Roussillon-Constanty. 2007. Dazzling Painting: Ruskin on Turner. Pau University Press. Click here for a summary of this publication.

Kite, S. 2007. Watching Palaces: Ruskin and the Representation of Venice. In The Politics of Making, eds M. Swenarton, I. Troiani, and H. Webster, 170 -182. Place: Routledge.

Hanson, David C. 2008. Ruskin, Dante, and the Dark Waters of Praeterita. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 58-93.

Helsinger, Elizabeth. 2008. Ruskin and the Aesthetics of Color. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 13-36.

Leypoldt, Gunter. 2007. Aesthetic Specialists and Public Intellectuals: Ruskin, Emerson, and Contemporary Professionalism. Modern Language Quarterly 68, no. 3 (September): 417-36

Levine, George. 2008. Ruskin, Darwin, and the Matter of Matter. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 223- 249.

Marsh, John. 2007. A Lost Art of Work: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg's "Chicago Poems". American Literature 79, no. 3 (September): 527-51.

Mason, Emma. The Trouble with Comfort: Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, and Leafy Emotion. The Yearbook of English Studies 36, no. 2 (2006): 169-79.

Mayer, Jed. 2008. Ruskin, Vivisection, and Scientific Knowledge. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 200-222.

Maynard, Jessica. 2006. Architectures of Sacrifice: Ruskin, Bataille, and the Resistance to Utility . Mosaic 39, no. 1 (March): 115-30.

Milbank, Alison. 2008. Ruskin’s Grotesque: Praeterita as Dantesque Journey to the Real. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 37-57.

Mitchard, Miles. 2008. Race and Radicalism: Ruskin and Murillo. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 135-160.

Kevin Morrison. 2008 (Forthcoming). Mimesis and Modernity: Ruskin, Proust, Benjamin. Comparative Literature.

O’Gorman, Francis. 2008. Ruskin and Fame. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 94-112.

Parks, John A. 2007. John Ruskin and His Influence on American Art. American Artist, 71 (June): 58-67.

Ra'ad, Basem L.and Rachel Teukolsky. Ruskin, Turner, and Modernism: Comment on Rachel Teukolsky, Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics, with reply. PMLA 123, no. 2 (2008): 479-82.

Rajan, Supritha. 2008. Sacred Commerce: Rites of Reciprocity in Ruskin. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 181-199.

Scappettone, Jennifer. 2007. Utopia Interrupted: Archipelago as Sociolyric Structure in "A Draft of XXX Cantos". PMLA 122, no. 1 (January): 105-23.

Sdegno, E. 2008 (expected). Ruskin's Optical Thought: Tools for Mountain Representation. In Visions of Modernity, eds L. Innocenti, F. Marucci, and E. Villari, 1-35. atti del convegno: Venezia, Cafoscarina.

—. 2006. 1900-1946: Le prime traduzioni artistiche. In L'eredità di John Ruskin nella cultura italiana del Novecento, ed. D. Lamberini, 221-246. Firenze: Nardini.

—. 2006. Shakespeare and Victorian Essayism: 'A Note of Provinciality'. In Paper Bullets of the Brain: Experiments in Shakespeare, eds. S. Bassi and R. Cimarosti, 111-124. Venezia: Cafoscarina.

Sennett, Richard. 2008. “Machine”. In The Craftsman, 106-118. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Teukolsky, Rachel. 2007. Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics. PMLA 122, no. 3 (May): 711-27

Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky. 2008. Introduction: Reinterpreting Ruskin. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 1-12.

Yeates, Amelia. 2008. Ruskin, Women’s Reading, and Commodity Culture. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, 1 (Spring): 113-134.

A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME PUBLICATIONS

Jason Camlot. 2008. Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms. Place: Ashgate. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5311-0, Price £50.00.
Jason Camlot is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His book focuses on nonfiction writings of John Wilson, Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde. In particular, the book investigates the development of the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self due to the development of new print media affected. James R. Kincaid, University of Southern California, claims: “It's a powerful book in Victorian studies, the finest I have seen in a decade; but it is so much more”.
See http://www.lundhumphries.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=7956&edition_id=8582

A review of this will appear in The Eighth Lamp, Volume 2 Issue 2 2009.

Table of contents
Introduction: Sincere Mannerisms
1. The Character of the Periodical Press
2. The Origins of Modern Earnest
3. The Downfall of Authority and The New Magazine
4. Thomas De Quincey’s Periodical Rhetoric
5. The Political Economy of Style: John Ruskin and Critical Truth
6. The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent
7. The Style is the Man: Style Theory in the 1890s

Yvonne Markowitz and Elyse Zorn Karlin. 2008. Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry. Lund Humphries. ISBN: 978-0-85331-997-9, Price £25.00.
Yvonne Markowitz is Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also the editor-in-chief of Jewelry: Journal of the American Society of Jewelry Historians and an editor of Adornment Magazine. Elyse Zorn Karlin is author of Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition (1993) and the publisher of Adornment: The Magazine of Jewelry & Related Arts. Imperishable Beauty presents an overview of the Art Nouveau movement, charting its route through the art of the Pre-Raphaelites, writings of Ruskin, and the Symbolist movement in Japan. The book also examines the repetitiousness, taste, and eroticism of the iconography in Art Nouveau Jewelry.
See http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10725&edition_id=11476

A review of this will appear in The Eighth Lamp, Volume 2 Issue 2 2009.

Fabienne Gaspari, Lawrence Gasquet, and Laurence Roussillon-Constanty. 2007. Dazzling Painting: Ruskin on Turner. Pau University Press.

Table of Contents:
Part One
Evolution and Revolution
Biographical and Geographical track
The impact of the painting
Part Two
Turner or the Absolute in Painting
On Truth in Art
Originality and Imagination
The Substance of the Infinite
Part Three
Light and Shadow in Turner’s painting
The Mystery of Work Completed
The Splendour and Misery of Nature: From a Representation of Energy to a Representation of Death

Summary (The summary as viewed on www.fabula.org/actualites/article16617.php has been translated by DC Rose)

John Ruskin, without any doubt the most influential English art critic of the 19th century, wrote the first volume of his Modern Painters when he was only twenty-four. At its publication, in 1843, the text was hailed by numerous painters and four further volumes appeared, completing Ruskin’s meditation on the work of Turner and on painting in general. As a fervent admirer of the man whom he considered the greatest painter of his day, Ruskin was not content only to establish his own bedazzlement when confronting Turner’s canvases. He also searched for a way of understanding and explaining their effect, to see how these could be read as an aesthetic experience. To achieve this, he applied himself not only to Turner’s biographical and geographical path, but also to the evolution of is technique. Moreover, the study of colour and composition, while central, led him, much further on, towards an interrogation of the truth of this painting. Ruskin showed that these pictures by Turner, even if they looked to depict mystery, the infinite and energy above all questioned, and redefined, the links that painting had with reality. In reconstructing thematically the vivid plea by Ruskin for this dazzling painting which the work unfolds even to-day, the selection of texts here gathered, extracts from Modern Painters – a critical monument not published in French – plunges us into the heart of Turner’s modernity.

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2008. Nineteenth-Century Prose 35, issue 1 (Spring). ISSN: 1052-0406.

This is a special issue on Ruskin, and it has essays by eminent scholars. It has been guest edited by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (Louisiana State University).
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A review of this will appear in The Eighth Lamp, Volume 2 Issue 1 2009.

Table of Contents:
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, "Introduction: Reinterpreting Ruskin"
Elizabeth Helsinger, "Ruskin and the Aesthetics of Color"
Alison Milbank, "Ruskin's Grotesque: Praeterita as Dantesque Journey to the Real"
David C. Hanson, "Ruskin, Dante, and the Dark Waters of Praeterita"
Francis O'Gorman, "Ruskin and Fame"
Sara Atwood, "'Riveder le stelle': Fors Clavigera and Ruskin's Educational Experiment"
Amelia Yeates, "Ruskin, Women's Reading, and Commodity Culture"
Miles Mitchard, "Race and Radicalism: Ruskin and Murillo"
Supritha Rajan, "Sacred Commerce: Rites of Reciprocity in Ruskin"
Jed Mayer, "Ruskin, Vivisection, and Scientific Knowledge"
George Levine, "Ruskin, Darwin, and the Matter of Matter"

Photo credit: Cynthia Gamble

Cynthia Gamble. 2008. John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads. New European Publications Limited. ISBN: 978-1-872410-68-5, Price £18.50.

Dr Cynthia Gamble is the author of Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: the Seven Lamps of Translation (2002), a Visiting Fellow of the Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, and the Secretary of the Ruskin Society London. She is one of the leading authorities on Ruskin. According to Jeffrey Richards, Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University, the book is “informative, evocative, scholarly and at the same time accessible. The author has picked her way through the intricate relationships brilliantly”.

Two reviews of the book, one by a Ruskin scholar and the other by an authority on James, will appear in The Eighth Lamp, Volume 2 Issue 1 2009.

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Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson. 2008. How to See. Ruskin Foundation, Brantwood. ISBN-10: 0955093821 ISBN-13: 978-0955093821.

In 2005 the Ruskin Foundation began collaborating with Hunt to produce a comic book series based on Ruskin’s ideas. John Ruskin, artist, writer and social visionary, gave us ideas that are more important today than ever, but he wrapped them in 19th century prose that is notoriously difficult to fathom. Collaboration with Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson has unlocked Ruskin’s ideas for a younger generation.

We are inviting reviews of this publication.