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Ruskin and his Victorian readers [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2020
Modern Painters (1843-60) and The Stones of Venice (1851-3) made John Ruskin one of the most influential critics of the nineteenth century. But these magisterial works were followed by a series of very different books, as Ruskin published lectures and ...
Dinah Birch
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Proceedings of the Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC) 2011 [PDF]

, 2012
These proceedings bring together a selection of papers from the 2011 Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference(SPARC). It includes papers from PhD students in the arts and social sciences, business, computing, science and engineering, education ...
Al Azawi, W, Al Ghazali, FAM, Al Jameel, H, Al Rawahi, M, Aljunaidy, MM, Berlin, J, Darlington, J, Demetriou, K, Demir, ST, Doran, C, Egbu, JU, Elagili, GY, Elferjani, M, Elmagri, MI, Elmsallati, NA, Griffiths, L, Hamlyn, CP, Hardman, M, Khashkhush, AS, Kiddy, PA, Lord, JD, Masrilayanti, M, Mohamed, MII, Morrison, SA, Mwenesongole, E, Opoku, A, Ozmen, ES, Rigby, MJ, ur Rehman, S, Yates, MT, Yusufu, AS   +30 more
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Geochronology of the Whittlesey sedimentary succession, eastern England: The ‘Pompeii’ of the British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The sedimentary succession at Whittlesey preserves a unique British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record back to a time equivalent to at least marine oxygen isotope stage 8 (ca. 250 ka). This study builds on previously published sedimentology, geochronology and palaeoecology results to establish 20 sedimentary facies associations, with ...
H. E. Langford, M. D. Bateman, R. M. Briant, D. J. Horne   +3 more
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John Ruskin and the Savage Gothic [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2015
John Ruskin’s provocative theories concerning Gothic art and architecture bear serious consideration in light of the formative debates concerning “primitive” art and its relation to modern European society.
Frances S. Connelly
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Needlework and John Ruskin’s “acicular art of nations”

E-REA, 2018
This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. Paying particular attention to textiles in the opening and closing of Fors Clavigera (1871-1885), and highlighting educational texts by two women cited there (Kate Stanley and
Rachel M. W. DICKINSON
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Tradição e inovação na pena de John Ruskin e Alexandre Herculano [PDF]

, 2002
Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877) e John Ruskin (1819-1900) conferiram uma nova vitalidade ao passado, entretecendo-o de ficções e realidades que cativaram os leitores do seu tempo e lhes abriram novos horizontes.
Melão, Dulce
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Broad support for lethal control of wild deer among subscribers of nature organisations in England and Wales

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild deer populations are increasing across the northern hemisphere, posing challenges to the environment and people. Deer impacts can be managed using lethal and non‐lethal practices, but research suggests lethal control receives mixed support.
Elena Cini, Rebecca Spake, Louise McMillan, Amy Gresham, Graeme Shannon, Felix Eigenbrod, Christopher P. Nichols, Paul Orsi, Alastair I. Ward, Freya A. V. St John   +9 more
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John Ruskin and Climate

English Literature
The essay offers an analysis of John Ruskin’s 1884 lectures on The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, focusing on his notions about the phenomenon of the storm-cloud, his careful recording of its occurrence in various parts of England since the ...
Orestano, Francesca
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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