Sesame and lilies / / John Ruskin ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah Epstein Nord ; with essays by Elizabeth Helsinger, Seth Koven, Jan Marsh

• Autore: Ruskin John <1819-1900.>
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xxiv, 207 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 824/.8
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - Great Britain; Conduct of life; Masculinity; Femininity; Sex role
• Altri autori: NordDeborah Epstein <1949->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-207).
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Ruskin's Life and Works -- Editor's Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Sesame and Lilies -- Glossary -- Authority, Desire, and the Pleasures of Reading -- Of Sesame and Lilies -- How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century. This volume returns Sesame and Lilies to easy availability and reunites the two halves of the work: Of Kings' Treasuries, in which Ruskin critiques Victorian manhood, and Of Queens' Gardens, in which he counsels women to take their places as the moral guides of men and urges the parents of girls to educate them to this end. Feminist critics of the 1960's and 1970's 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sesame and lilies
• ISBN: 9786611730116; 1-281-73011-4; 0-300-12930-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813957703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rethinking the Western tradition.