Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin FROM THE PUBLISHER
Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close intellectual relationship between Walter Pater and John Ruskin, the two most important Victorian critics of art. Kenneth Daley explores the work and thought of both writers in context with other Victorian writers, and enlarges the issues at stake between them, connecting these issues to ongoing artistic, cultural, and political concerns of the modern world.
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Focusing on the two late-19th-century writers as theorists of romanticism, Daley (English, Ohio U.) reads Pater's theory as a response to Ruskin's more ambivalent theory that the modern period was a perversion of the romantic ideal. He finds that Pater considered Ruskin, a generation his senior, to have conservative ideas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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