Sesame and lilies / John Ruskin ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah Epstein Nord ; with essays by Elizabeth Helsinger, Seth Koven, Jan Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Contributor:

Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-

Series:

Rethinking the Western tradition.

Rethinking the Western tradition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Sesame and lilies.

Ruskin, John.

Books and reading--Great Britain.

Books and reading.

Conduct of life.

Masculinity.

Femininity.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 207 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century. This volume returns Sesame and Lilies to easy availability and reunites the two halves of the work: 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. Feminist critics of the 1960's and 1970's regarded Of Queens' Gardens as an exemplary expression of repressive Victorian ideas about femininity, and they paired it with John Stuart Mill's more progressive Subjection of Women. This volume, by including the often ignored Of Kings' Treasuries, offers readers full access to Ruskin's complex and sometimes contradictory views on men and women. The accompanying essays place Sesame and Lilies within historical debates on men, women, culture, and the family. Elizabeth Helsinger examines the text as a meditation on the pleasures of reading, Seth Koven gives a wide-ranging account of how Victorians read Sesame and Lilies, and Jan Marsh situates the work within controversies over educational reform.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Ruskin's Life and Works

Editor's Introduction

Note on the Text

Sesame and Lilies

Glossary

Authority, Desire, and the Pleasures of Reading

Of Sesame and Lilies

How the Victorians Read Sesame and Lilies

Suggestions for Further Reading

Contributors

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-207).

ISBN:

9786611730116

9781281730114

1281730114

9780300129304

0300129300

OCLC:

952733232