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Details
Publication Date:
1993-12-01
Edition Description:
Illustrated
Size
Length:
274 pages
Height:
9.0 in
Width:
5.8 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
20.0 oz
Publisher's Note This remarkable book begins with a prodigiously inventive child who looks ahead to what he will achieve, and ends with an adult who looks to his past for proof that he has never been inventive. John Ruskins apparent about-face reveals how early literary, familial, sexual and social experiences affect artistic identity, and how authors (mis)represent their own past. The book shows Ruskins writing to be an exciting resource for those who are interested in a child's acquisition of language in nineteenth-century Britain, and curious about how a prodigy becomes an adult with a public career.