The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Kenneth Daley. The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 169. $39.95. ISBN 0-8214-1382-1.

Although the title of this monograph offers three keywords for the cataloguers and websearchers--Romanticism, Pater and Ruskin--the volume's cover tells a different story, with its tinted photograph of Ruskin's head, half in focus and half blurred. The operative criterion here is Romanticism, the virtues of which, it is argued, Ruskin denied and Pater embraced. Behind the Romanticism of the title for Daley lies a teleology ...

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