
Sesame and Lilies John Ruskin, Deborah Epstein Nord
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- Series:
- Rethinking the Western Tradition
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication date:
- 11 Aug 2002
- ISBN:
- 9780300092608
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 240 pages: 210 x 140mm
- Sales territories:
- World
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Feminist critics of the 1960s and 1970s regarded Of Queens’ Gardens as an exemplary expression of repressive Victorian ideas about femininity, and they paired it with John Stuart Mill’s more progressive Subjection of Women. This volume, by including the often ignored Of Kings’ Treasuries, offers readers full access to Ruskin’s complex and sometimes contradictory views on men and women. The accompanying essays place Sesame and Lilies within historical debates on men, women, culture, and the family. Elizabeth Helsinger examines the text as a meditation on the pleasures of reading, Seth Koven gives a wide-ranging account of how Victorians read Sesame and Lilies, and Jan Marsh situates the work within controversies over educational reform.
"This edition of Sesame and Lilies has . . . rendered a valuable service. . . . Excellent critical essays."?Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"In offering both lectures, this edition of Sesame and Lilies has already rendered a valuable service. . . . Impassioned, protean, and richly suggestive, Ruskin?s voluminous body of work was vastly and variedly influential. . . . To read Ruskin in the open and imaginative spirit with which he himself urged readers to approach great books is to realize that his writings will survive any number of shifts in intellectual fashion."?Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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