Authors: John Ruskin
ISBN-13: 9781426410734, ISBN-10: 1426410735
Format: Paperback
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
1851. Ruskin, the greatest Victorian bar Victoria, was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the preeminent art critic of his time. Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. This volume contains three lectures by Ruskin titled: Of Kings' Treasuries; Of Queens' Gardens; and Of the Mystery of Life. John 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. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Acknowledgments | ||
Chronology of Ruskin's Life and Works | ||
Editor's Introduction | ||
Note on the Text | ||
Sesame and Lilies | 1 | |
Glossary | 95 | |
Rethinking Sesame and Lilies | ||
Authority, Desire, and the Pleasures of Reading | 113 | |
Of Sesame and Lilies: Education in a Humane Society | 142 | |
How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies | 165 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 205 | |
List of Contributors | 209 |