Author: John RuskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Praeterita
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Praeterita
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 037571264X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin’s Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary nineteenth-century critic. Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years, Praeterita tells the story of Ruskin’s early life—the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists. In abandoning the traditional linear mode of autobiography, Ruskin opened up the form and was an important influence on Proust. He also provided a vivid, detailed portrait of pre-Victorian and Victorian England that is as indispensable an account of its era as Samuel Pepys’s diary is of England in the seventeenth century. This edition of Praeterita is accompanied by Dilecta, Ruskin’s own selection from his letters, diaries, and other writings. In these more private writings we get a fascinating glimpse of genius as it flickers in and out of madness. Together these two works illuminate the life and mind of a towering intellect who left an extraordinary mark on the history of aesthetics and culture, and on the very course of autobiography. With a new Introduction by Tim Hilton
Praeterita
Author: John RuskinPraeterita
Author: John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
John Ruskin: Praeterita
Author: Ruskin John RuskinPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472230
Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius. This exceptional biography - the first of Ruskin's works in the Whitehouse edition - simultaneously presents a deeply reflective portrait of an early 19th-century Protestant family - its genuine piety, its severities, its suffocating possessive affections - and the product (at once intellectually brilliant and emotionally damaged) of its educational system.
The Works of John Ruskin: Praeterita. Dilecta
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Praeterita. Outlines of scenes and thoughts perhaps worthy of memory in my past life. [Publ. in 28 pt. Followed by] Dilecta
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Author: John RuskinPraeterita
Author: John RuskinPraeterita
Author: John RuskinPraeterita
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192802410
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
John Ruskin was one of the most influential men of his day, and Praeterita, his autobiography, offers fascinating insights into many of the topics in which he was pre-eminent: art, architecture, J. M. W. Turner, nature, politics, and travel. This is the first major new edition since 1908, including passages excised from the original printed editions. The Introduction sets the autobiography in the context of Ruskin's life at the time of writing and discusses its fractured nature and unique style. Thorough explanatory notes illuminate the many references and allusions and the Glossary of Persons Mentioned provides a gazetteer of Ruskin's social and intellectual circle. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.