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Ruskin's God (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Book 24

Ruskin's God (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) (1999) (edit title/settings)

by Michael Wheeler (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ruskin's God is the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had on his many and varied writings. Part I, "The Author of Modern Painters," covers the first half of his career, when he was an Evangelical Christian and aimed to teach people how to see paintings,... read more

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These are extraordinary words for a father to write to his ten-year-old son; but then neither father nor son was ordinary.

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Preface
Abbreviations
List of illustrations

1. Introduction: 'To enlighten a people by your wisdom': the divine commission

Part I. The author of Modern Painters:
2. 'The Shechinah of the Blue': in God's temple
3. 'The Peace of God' and a Christian theory of art
4. 'The Book-Temple': a Protestant beholder of St Mark's
5. 'True sacred art' and Christ the great high priest
6. 'Solomon's Christian royalty': a rite of passage in Turin

Part II. Victorian Solomon:
7. Solomon's 'maxims concerning wealth'
8. Science, myth and a creative wisdom
9. St George, St Francis, and the rule of love and wisdom
10. Fragments of Christendom in Venice and Amiens
11. The 'visible heaven' and apocalyptic wisdom

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This is book 24 of 78 in Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. (publisher series)

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  1. Michael Wheeler (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country: Great Britain & USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0521574145
Page Count: 320

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  • Library of Congress: PR5267.R4 W47 1999
  • Dewey: 828.809

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