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Columbus State University
'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This essay examines how art and gender become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of industrial, imperial nineteenth-century Victorian Britain. Though Ruskin is often labeled by some scholars as a prime example of Victorian sexism, an analysis of his reverence for and encouragement of virtuous medieval qualities in art, society and womanhood will allow us to more fully, effectively and usefully understand Ruskin and his times.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Art History
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History and Geography
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hinzman, Katherine M.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Dr. Claire McCoy
- Dr. Barbara Johnston
- Michele McCrillis
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/181
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1181