Title Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture / edited by Anselm Heinrich, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards

Published Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; [Bristol] : Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: The Victorian Stage and Visual Culture / K. Newey -- John Ruskin, Olympian Painters and the Amateur Stage / J. Richards -- Ruskin at the Savoy / T. Hilton -- Ruskinian Moral Authority and Theatre's Ideal Woman / R. Dickinson -- Re-interpreting Ruskin and Browning's Dramatic 'Art-poems' / A. Leng -- Ruskin and the National Theatre / A. Heinrich -- The First Theatrical Pre-Raphaelite? Ruskin's Molïre / A. Tate -- The Britannia Theatre: Visual Culture and the Repertoire of a Popular Theatre / J. Norwood -- Supernumeraries: decorating the late-Victorian stage with lots (& lots & lots) of live bodies / D. Mayer -- 'A truer peep at Old Venice'. The Merchant of Venice on the Victorian stage / R. Foulkes -- The Photographic Portraiture of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry / S. West -- 'Auntie, can you do that?' or 'Ibsen in Brixton': Representing the Victorian Stage through Cartoon and Caricature / J. Davis Summary This book brings together original research in theatre and the visual arts, around the common object of a revaluation of the intersections of the theatre and visual culture. Contributors are drawn from a stimulating mix of highly-esteemed and established scholars (such as Shearer West, Jim Davis, Richard Foulkes and David Mayer) and new scholars, bringing fresh research materials into the mix. The collection offers a set of essays around a theme of emerging interest in Victorian studies. There are few books focused on the theatre and the visual arts since Martin Meisel's Realizations. Since then, essay length pieces have been published by prominent theatre and art historians, several of whom are contributors to this work. The multi-author nature of this collection of essays allows a broader range of original material to be examined, and a number of critical approaches to be pursued. The collection is made coherent by the focus on John Ruskin's aesthetic and cultural theories, and their application to a re-evaluation of the popular theatre of the late nineteenth century. All contributors are working within a theoretical framework which challenges Modernist historiographical assumptions about a theatre in moral and aesthetic decline in this period Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. SUBJECT Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 fast Subject Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Visual communication. Literary studies: plays & playwrights. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. Literature. Manners and customs Theater Theater and society Visual communication SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Heinrich, Anselm Newey, Katherine Richards, Jeffrey ISBN 9780230236790 0230236790 1282507478 9781282507470 9786612507472 6612507470

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