Italian counterpoint: Henry James and John Ruskin in Florence.

From: Victorian Newsletter | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Though the brilliant and often controversial art criticism and social commentary of John Ruskin loomed large in the minds of many nineteenth-century Americans and western Europeans, Henry James boldly proclaimed in his essay "Italy Revisited" that Ruskin would never be fruitfully read in Florence because the general tone of his Florentine commentary is antithetical to the place where art is "spontaneous, joyous, irresponsible" (379). Although both writers were drawn to Florence for similar reasons (both were deeply passionate about Italy in general: Ruskin made twenty-three ...

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