Architecture, srailroads, and Ruskin's rhetoric of bodily form
Readers of Ruskin have long recognized the thematic significance of the body in his writings: his ambivalent attitude toward sexuality; his embodied sense of aesthetic vision; his regard for the value of creative, physical labor; his consistent emphasis on the moral authority of affective judgment....
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| Published in | Prose studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 74 - 94 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
01.04.1998
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| Summary: | Readers of Ruskin have long recognized the thematic significance of the body in his writings: his ambivalent attitude toward sexuality; his embodied sense of aesthetic vision; his regard for the value of creative, physical labor; his consistent emphasis on the moral authority of affective judgment. Less noticed, however, is the importance he attributes to the schematic organization of the body itself. This articles shows how Ruskin's idea of bodily form structures and correlates two prominent areas of his thought: his theory of architecture and his negative response to industrial technology, particularly as exemplified by the railroad. |
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| ISSN: | 0144-0357 1743-9426 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01440359808586631 |