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Authors: John Ruskin
ISBN-13: 9781426410734, ISBN-10: 1426410735
Format: Paperback
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: John Ruskin

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chronology of Ruskin's Life and Works
Editor's Introduction
Note on the Text
Sesame and Lilies1
Glossary95
Rethinking Sesame and Lilies
Authority, Desire, and the Pleasures of Reading113
Of Sesame and Lilies: Education in a Humane Society142
How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies165
Suggestions for Further Reading205
List of Contributors209

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