Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture and Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern.

From: Yearbook of English Studies | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Hardman, Malcolm | Copyright information 
 
Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture. 
By Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. Athens: Ohio University Press. 1998. 
xi+214 pp. $45. 
 
Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern. Ed. by Dinah Birch. 
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. x+194 pp. [pound]35.

John Ruskin's current makeover from flawed socialist to imperfect feminist is at one level the last opportunity of academic publishing. With his sometimes Aristophanic, even Swiftian, humour, he would appreciate that...

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