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| Named Person: | John Ruskin |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman |
| ISBN: | 0821412353 9780821412350 |
| OCLC Number: | 39001270 |
| Description: | xi, 214 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Myths that matter. Introduction ; Theories of gender, myth, and discourse -- Nineteenth-century mythmaking. Victorian mythographers: Philology to feminism ; Lamia and beyond: Androgyny as gender subversion -- John Ruskin's mythology of gender. "Be no more housewives, but queens": Queen Victoria in Ruskin's domestic mythology ; Gender and the architectonics of metaphor: Ruskin's pathetic fallacy in The Ethics of the Dust ; Athena and the feminization of language. |
| Responsibility: | Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. |
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- Ruskin, John, -- 1819-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- English literature -- Greek influences.
- Mythology, Greek, in literature.
- Social norms in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Queens in literature.
- Myth in literature.
