Ruskin and the Ideal Woman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14808134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda M Austin (0000-0001-7992-078X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 28 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Central Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0743-6831 • E-ISSN: 1549-3377 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3189025 |
| OpenAlex | W2329966468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
From the 1860s on, John Ruskin turned his notions about beauty and morality into a growing preoccupation with young women. Even his resurgence of faith in 1875 coincided with his vision of the ghost of Rose La Touche. His new religion, like his late ideas about aesthetics, was a clouded version of the original, tinctured by the doubts of intervening years. By 1869, his suspicious adulation centered on a figure who embodied standards of beauty and goodness which he had defined in earlier works. She is an ideal woman who combines his ethics with his aesthet
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Beauty · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Faith · Morality · Theology · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |