Ruth Clayton Windscheffel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Clayton Windscheffel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth Clayton |
| FAMILY NAME | Windscheffel |
| SIGNATURE | WINDSCHEFFEL R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2769-5861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
William Gladstone: New Studies and Perspectives
Contents: Foreword, David Bebbington Introduction, Ruth Clayton Windscheffel Part I Reputations: Gladstone a political not a cultural radical, Frank M. Turner Gladstone and Peel's mantle, Richard A. Gaunt Gladstone and labour, Chris Wrigley. Part II Images: Gladstone's visage: problem and performance, Joseph S. Meisel Material Gladstones, Mark Nixon. Part III Personal Questions: Gladstone as friend, Denis Paz Gladstone as woodsman, Peter Sewter T…
Gladstone and Scott: Family, Identity and Nation
In the 175 years since his death, Walter Scott has regularly been hailed as an influence by politicians. Amongst the poet-novelist's nineteenth-century political admirers, William Ewart Gladstone was possibly the most ardent, genuine, and significant. Scott's poems and novels were amongst the earliest texts Gladstone read; he read no works (in English), except the Bible, so consistently or completely over such a length of time. They offered him a…
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Journal Article Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London Get access Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2004; pp. xvii + 399. £18.95). Ruth Clayton Windscheffel Ruth Clayton Windscheffel St Hilda's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 495, February 2007, Pages 272–274…
Gladstone and Dante: Victorian Statesman, Medieval Poet
When criticising Lord John Russell's translations from Dante in 1844, William Gladstone was seeking not only to establish his own credentials as a Dante scholar and make useful political capital, but also to signal his belief that insufficient time and thought had been devoted to the project. ‘Unless his intellectual being be in great part absorbed in that of his original’, Gladstone opined, the translator ‘must ... fail in his task, whatever be …
Politics, Religion and Text: W.E. Gladstone and Spiritualism
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Windscheffel, R. C. (2006). 'Politics, religion and text: W. E. Gladstone and spiritualism', Journal of Victorian Culture 11(1), 1-29. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1355%2d5502&volume=11&issue=1&spage=1]
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Journal Article Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London Get access Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2004; pp. xvii + 399. £18.95). Ruth Clayton Windscheffel Ruth Clayton Windscheffel St Hilda's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 495, February 2007, Pages 272–274…
Politics, Religion and Text: W.E. Gladstone and Spiritualism
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Windscheffel, R. C. (2006). 'Politics, religion and text: W. E. Gladstone and spiritualism', Journal of Victorian Culture 11(1), 1-29. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1355%2d5502&volume=11&issue=1&spage=1]
Gladstone and Scott: Family, Identity and Nation
In the 175 years since his death, Walter Scott has regularly been hailed as an influence by politicians. Amongst the poet-novelist's nineteenth-century political admirers, William Ewart Gladstone was possibly the most ardent, genuine, and significant. Scott's poems and novels were amongst the earliest texts Gladstone read; he read no works (in English), except the Bible, so consistently or completely over such a length of time. They offered him a…
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Journal Article Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London Get access Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven (Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2004; pp. xvii + 399. £18.95). Ruth Clayton Windscheffel Ruth Clayton Windscheffel St Hilda's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 495, February 2007, Pages 272–274…
Gladstone and Dante: Victorian Statesman, Medieval Poet
When criticising Lord John Russell's translations from Dante in 1844, William Gladstone was seeking not only to establish his own credentials as a Dante scholar and make useful political capital, but also to signal his belief that insufficient time and thought had been devoted to the project. ‘Unless his intellectual being be in great part absorbed in that of his original’, Gladstone opined, the translator ‘must ... fail in his task, whatever be …
William Gladstone: New Studies and Perspectives
Contents: Foreword, David Bebbington Introduction, Ruth Clayton Windscheffel Part I Reputations: Gladstone a political not a cultural radical, Frank M. Turner Gladstone and Peel's mantle, Richard A. Gaunt Gladstone and labour, Chris Wrigley. Part II Images: Gladstone's visage: problem and performance, Joseph S. Meisel Material Gladstones, Mark Nixon. Part III Personal Questions: Gladstone as friend, Denis Paz Gladstone as woodsman, Peter Sewter T…
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