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Ruskin’s Change Over Time

Ruskin’s Change Over Time ‘‘Ruskin’s jerky life’’ (Pevsner) ‘‘One’s opinions . . . are the soul’s clothes—and a healthy soul is always growing too big for its opinions and wanting to them to let out’’ MISCELLANY: COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN DIXON HUNT University of Pennsylvania Figure 1. Plate VI in The Poetry of Architecture, a book subtitled ‘‘the architecture of the nations of Europe considered in its association with natural scener y and national character’’; the plate was used to explain what Ruskin calls ‘‘the mind of the people’’ by reviewing ‘‘the chimneys of a few nations.’’ (Collection, J. Dixon Hunt) PAGE 92 .................18864$ $CH7 05-16-16 15:22:31 PS Introduction What follows is a miscellany that charts some of Ruskin’s attention to preservation, not just in Venice, but through his attention to architecture in northern France and vernacular architecture and landscape in the Alps. Yet, given his own often esoteric approach to what- ever topic he took up during his career, it seemed useful to gather his remarks, his obiter dicta, even his asides, under the themes that obsessed him from his early days. So they are gathered under nine headings that he himself might have supplied: concerns with national identity; identity or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Change Over Time University of Pennsylvania Press

Ruskin’s Change Over Time

Hunt, John Dixon
Change Over Time , Volume 6 (1) – Jun 14, 2016
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‘‘Ruskin’s jerky life’’ (Pevsner) ‘‘One’s opinions . . . are the soul’s clothes—and a healthy soul is always growing too big for its opinions and wanting to them to let out’’ MISCELLANY: COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN DIXON HUNT University of Pennsylvania Figure 1. Plate VI in The Poetry of Architecture, a book subtitled ‘‘the architecture of the nations of Europe considered in its association with natural scener y and national character’’; the plate was used to explain what Ruskin calls ‘‘the mind of the people’’ by reviewing ‘‘the chimneys of a few nations.’’ (Collection, J. Dixon Hunt) PAGE 92 .................18864$ $CH7 05-16-16 15:22:31 PS Introduction What follows is a miscellany that charts some of Ruskin’s attention to preservation, not just in Venice, but through his attention to architecture in northern France and vernacular architecture and landscape in the Alps. Yet, given his own often esoteric approach to what- ever topic he took up during his career, it seemed useful to gather his remarks, his obiter dicta, even his asides, under the themes that obsessed him from his early days. So they are gathered under nine headings that he himself might have supplied: concerns with national identity; identity or

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