{"product_id":"performing-the-victorian-sharon-aronofsky-weltman-9780814257609","title":"Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education","description":"\u003ci\u003ePerforming the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education\u003c\/i\u003e by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman is the first book to examine Ruskin's writing on theater. In works as celebrated as \u003ci\u003eModern Painters\u003c\/i\u003e and obscure as \u003ci\u003eLove's Meinie\u003c\/i\u003e, Ruskin uses his voracious attendance at the theater to illustrate points about social justice, aesthetic practice, and epistemology. Opera, Shakespeare, pantomime, French comedies, juggling acts, and dance prompt his fascination with performed identities that cross boundaries of gender, race, nation, and species. These theatrical examples also reveal the primacy of performance to his understanding of science and education. In addition to Ruskin on theater, \u003ci\u003ePerforming the Victorian\u003c\/i\u003e interprets recent theater portraying Ruskin (\u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Love, The Countess\u003c\/i\u003e, the opera \u003ci\u003eModern Painters\u003c\/i\u003e) as merely a Victorian prude or pedophile against which contemporary culture defines itself. These theatrical depictions may be compared to concurrent plays about Ruskin's friend and student Oscar Wilde (\u003ci\u003eGross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Judas Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e). Like Ruskin, Wilde is misrepresented on the fin-de-millennial stage, in his case anachronistically as an icon of homosexual identity. These recent characterizations offer a set of static identity labels that constrain contemporary audiences more rigidly than the mercurial selves conjured in the prose of either Ruskin or Wilde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon Aronofsky Weltman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Sharon Aronofsky Weltman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43944058683647,"sku":"9780814257609","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f94ae282-a502-417f-8486-cba767c0b4ba.jpg?v=1681501547","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performing-the-victorian-sharon-aronofsky-weltman-9780814257609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}