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John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835 - The Written Records and Drawings (Hardcover, New)
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John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835 - The Written Records and Drawings (Hardcover, New)
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John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in
childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee
and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination
with geology found its earliest expression in journal articles from
the age of fifteen, while his considerable talents as a draughtsman
were developed by leading drawing masters before he was sixteen.
Rather than being a prodigy in one particular field, it was his
precocious mix of religion, science and art that laid the
foundations for the fulfilment of his career as a critic of art,
architecture and society. The cultural tours that he made with his
family as he grew up provided the crucial focus for these
developing interests, and the second extended tour of the Continent
in 1835 at the age of sixteen in particular established the
paradigm for his orchestrated representation and analysis of
cultural experience along 'the old road', through France to
Chamonix, and through the Swiss Alps to northern Italy as far as
Venice. His diary of the journey and associated writings, together
with the numerous drawings he made in relation to it, are annotated
and fully catalogued for the first time in this edition that
includes maps and an introductory essay. Keith Hanley is Professor
of English Literature at Lancaster University. Caroline S. Hull is
a freelance academic writer and researcher.
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