Architecture, srailroads, and Ruskin's rhetoric of bodily form

• Published in: Prose studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 74 - 94
• Main Author: Bizup, Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.04.1998

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....