ENGL 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Art Criticism, Industrial Revolution, Fallacy

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 405
• Professor: curtis brown

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Tuesday, march 7, 2017. Ruskin a prodigy of carlyle/ carlyle was ruskin"s mentor. Ruskin"s style and vision - - > similar to carlyle"s. "modern painters" - - > really about sight and how we see things. Ruskin a pivotal point between romantic essayists and victorian writers. Familiar style and more prophetic tones - - > ruskins combines these. Art criticism as a template for how to perceive the world. Central to wilde and pater. Relationship to proust - - > proust was obsessed with ruskin. On almost erotic terms the degree to which he wanted to assimilate ruskin"s style and vision. Essayistic energy entering into fiction, essay and fiction are bed- fellows. Prous leads us to woolf, joyce, and other modernist writers. All absorb ruskin"s essayistic prose. Ruskin the lynch- pin for this course and the 19th c canon. Carlyle "characteristics" - - > speaks about view hunting. Fetishization of nature, painting of scenery. Evidence of a kind of decadence.