Release of The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today No 9 2014

The ninth issue of The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (ISSN 2049-3215) is now online.

The new home of the journal is https://independent.academia.edu/L8

The link to the issue is http://www.academia.edu/10970821/The_Eighth_Lamp_Ruskin_Studies_Today_No_9_2014

Current and past issues can now be downloaded directly.

Some highlights are:


REVIEWS:

─ Cynthia Gamble, Review of Marriage of Inconvenience by Robert Brownell. London: Pallas Athene, 2013… 33
─ Anita Grants, Review of Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture by Stephen Kite. London: Ashgate, 2012… 37
─ Rachel Dickinson, Review of Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft & Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Talia Schaffer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011… 40
─ Anita Grants, Review of Exhibition, John Ruskin: Artist and Observer. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 14 February–11 May 2014 [Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 4 July–28 September 2014], curated by Christopher Newall and Conal Shields… 43

ARTICLES

─ “Swift visions of centuries”: Langdale Linen, Songs of the Spindle, and the Revolutionary Potential of the Book by Patrick Mcdonald… 46
─ John Ruskin and the characterisation of ‘word-painting’ in the nineteenth century by Marjorie Cheung… 62


The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (ISSN 2049-3215) invites contributors to submit scholarly papers (8,000-10,000 or 3500-4000 words), ideas for book reviews, exhibition reviews, news and events, titles of publications and projects in progress, and creative work and abstracts related to John Ruskin and related nineteenth century scholarship. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing and revisions process. Please email submissions directly to the editors at theeighthlamp@gmail.com.


The Eighth Lamp is an online and double blind refereed journal led and managed by Professor (Dr) Anuradha Chatterjee (Founding Editor and Co-Editor), and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Co-Editor), Senior Lecturer in English, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. The journal is also complemented by a ten strong Editorial Board that provides intellectual and pedagogical support and leadership to the journal. The scope of The Eighth Lamp is multidisciplinary and it welcomes submissions related to art, religion, historiography, social criticism, tourism, economics, philosophy, science, architecture, photography, preservation, cinema, and theatre. The journal is circulated to over 100 scholars and academics internationally. The journal is listed in key Victorian studies and nineteenth century literature, culture, and visual studies forums. The Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/eighth.lamp.

Call for Papers: The Eighth Lamp, No 9 2014

The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (ISSN 2049-3215) invites contributors to submit scholarly papers (8,000-10,000 or 3500-4000 words), book reviews (1000-2000 words), exhibition reviews (1000-2000 words), news and events, titles of publications and projects in progress, and creative work and abstracts related to John Ruskin and related nineteenth century scholarship. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing and revisions process.

The Eighth Lamp is an online and double blind refereed journal (previously published by Rivendale Press, UK). It is led and managed by Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Founding Editor and Co-Editor), Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Co-Editor), Senior Lecturer in English, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. The journal is also complemented by a strong Editorial Board that provides intellectual and pedagogical support and leadership to the journal:

Dr Cynthia Gamble (Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University, and Vice-Chairman of the Ruskin Society); Dr Iolanda Ramos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Dr Emma Sdegno (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice); Dr Helena Gurfinkel (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville); Dr Stuart Eagles (Companion of the Guild of St George); Dr Anita Grants (Concordia University in Montreal, Canada); Dr Carmen Casaliggi (University of Wales in Cardiff); Prof Bénédicte Coste (University of Burgundy, Dijon, France); Dr Rachel Dickinson (Manchester Metropolitan University); Dr Sara Atwood (Guild of St. George) and Dr Mark Frost (University of Portsmouth).

The scope of The Eighth Lamp is multidisciplinary and it welcomes submissions related to art, religion, historiography, social criticism, tourism, economics, philosophy, science, architecture, photography, preservation, cinema, and theatre. The journal is circulated to over 100 scholars and academics internationally. The journal is listed in key Victorian studies and nineteenth century literature, culture, and visual studies forums.

Issues of the journal can be found here:

2013 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 8. Edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty. http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l88   

2012 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 7. Edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty. http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l87    

2011 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 6. Edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty.  http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l86  

2010 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 5 . Edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Carmen Cassaliggi. http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l85 

2010 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 4. Edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Carmen Cassaliggi. http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l84

2009 The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 3. Edited by Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Carmen Cassaliggi. http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l83  

ISSN: 2049-3215. 

Email the editors are theeighthlamp@gmail.com

The Eighth Lamp No 7 Now Online

Please see The Eighth Lamp No 7 http://issuu.com/theeighthlamp/docs/l87

Great link for Ruskin collections

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/may06.shtml

Last call - The Eighth Lamp, no 7 due for publication closing

The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today is wrapping up the draft of the annual issue to be online soon. Please send us any information regarding Ruskin and Ruskin related activities, events, and published and unpublished research and projects...Email: theeighthlamp@gmail.com - Anu and Laurence (Editors)

12 May Saturday at 5.30 pm at the Scuola di San Rocco Prof. Salvatore Settis will give a public lecture on the ethical implications of conservation, and Franco Marucci and Francis O' Gorman will present and discuss the proceedings from the 2008 conference in Venice: Ruskin, Venice and C19 Cultural Travel

CFP The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 2012/2013

The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today (ISSN 2049-3215) invites contributors to submit scholarly papers (8,000-10,000 or 3500-4000 words), ideas for book reviews, exhibition reviews, news and events, titles of publications and projects in progress, and creative work and abstracts related to John Ruskin and related nineteenth century scholarship. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing and revisions process.

The Eighth Lamp is an online and double blind refereed journal published by Rivendale Press, UK. It is led and managed by Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Founding Editor and Co-Editor), Lecturer in History and Theory in Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Co-Editor), Senior Lecturer in English, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. The journal is also complemented by a ten strong Editorial Board that provides intellectual and pedagogical support and leadership to the journal. It is part of The Oscholars group of journals (www.oscholars.com) edited by David Charles Rose.

The scope of The Eighth Lamp is multidisciplinary and it welcomes submissions related to art, religion, historiography, social criticism, tourism, economics, philosophy, science, architecture, photography, preservation, cinema, and theatre. The Oscholars site has a monthly audience of over 45,000. The journal is circulated to over 100 scholars and academics internationally. The journal is listed in key Victorian studies and nineteenth century literature, culture, and visual studies forums. Previous issues of The Eighth Lamp can be accessed via the following link: http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/index.htm.  

Please email submissions directly to the editors at theeighthlamp@gmail.com.

The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today No. 6 Now Online

Dear colleagues,

The much awaited sixth issue of The Eighth Lamp is now online. http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/Ruskin6/ToC.htm. We are already receiving submissions for 2012 and 2013 so please do not heistate to send them in to theeighthlamp@gmail.com to Anu or Laurence.

Hope you enjoy reading this issue.

Laurence and Anu

Meet our editorial board members

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Cynthia Gamble

Dr Cynthia Gamble is a visiting Fellow of The Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University, and Vice-Chairman of the Ruskin Society. She is the author of Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation (Summa Publications, 2002) and John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads (New European Publications, 2008), a work that was inspired by her Shropshire heritage. She has co-authored many works on Anglo-French cross currents such as 'A Perpetual Paradise': Ruskin's Northern France (Lancaster University, 2002) and Ruskin-Turner. Dessins et voyages en Picardie romantique (Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 2003), and finds particular inspiration in working with two languages and cultures. She contributed 14 entries to the Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (Honoré Champion, Paris, 2004), a work that was awarded the prestigious Prix Émile Faguet de l'Académie Française. Although currently based in London, she has lived and worked in Belgium and France for considerable periods of time and has taught at lycées in Quimperlé and Grenoble and in schools, colleges and universities throughout England. She is a graduate of the Université de Grenoble and London University.

Iolanda Ramos

Iolanda Ramos is Assistant Professor of English Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Her Ph.D. thesis on Ruskin’s social and political thought, entitled O Poder do Pó: O Pensamento Social e Político de John Ruskin 1819-1900, was published by the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2002. She has contributed to the volume Ruskin in Perspective: Contemporary Essays with the essay “Museums for the People: A Signifying Practice of Order within a Community” (ed. Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). She has published widely in the field of Victorian Studies, mainly on political, economic and gender aspects in reference to cultural and utopian studies. She has been carrying out research as part of the project “Mapping Dreams: British and North-American Utopianism” within the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), and she is a member of the Advisory Board of Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal ( ISSN 1646-4729). Her research interests include visual studies, intercultural communication, and translation studies (19th-21st century).

Emma Sdegno

Emma Sdegno teaches nineteenth-century English literature and literary translation at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She graduated in English Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari, and in the A.Y. 1991-1992 attended the MA in “Literature and the Visual Arts, 1840-1940” at the University of Reading (UK), where she started a research work on Ruskin, which would be developed and expanded in her PhD dissertation on the rhetorical strategies in Modern Painters, submitted at Venice University. She has written mainly on Victorian literature and culture and extensively on Ruskin. Some of her contributions on his art critical prose and twentieth-century reception were presented at the international conferences on Ruskin’s European legacy, i.e.: Ruskin and Tuscany, Sheffield-Lucca 1993 (J. Clegg and P. Tucker, org.); Ruskin and Modernism, Milano-Vercelli, September 1997 (G. Cianci and T. Cerutti org.); L’eredità italiana di Ruskin, Firenze, 2000 (P. Tucker and D. Lamberini, org.); “Posterité de Ruskin”, Lille, Fr. June 2009 ( J. Prugnaud, I. Lenaud-Lechien). With K. Hanley and R. Dickinson (Lancaster University) she organized the international conference “Ruskin, Venice and 19th-century Cultural Travel”, hosted in Venice, VIU and Scuola Grande di San Rocco, on September 26-28, 2008. Her current interests concern Ruskin in the broader context of modern theory on landscape and nineteenth-century travel writing, and is engaged in a project with Lausanne University on Ruskin’s Franco-Swiss tours.

Helena Gurfinkel

Helena Gurfinkel received her PhD in English from Tufts University. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Victorian literature, critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the
author of articles on Oscar Wilde, J.R. Ackerley, Anthony Trollope, and Alan Hollinghurst, among others. Her book manuscript considers non-traditional fatherhood in Victorian and twentieth-century British literature. Her other interests include psychoanalytic theory, Diaspora studies, and masculinity studies. She is a co-editor of UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre.

Stuart Eagles

'Stuart Eagles wrote an MA dissertation at Lancaster University on Ruskin and Dickens, and completed a doctoral thesis on Ruskin's social and political legacy at the University of Oxford. He frequently contributes to the Ruskin Review and Bulletin, and he is a Companion of the Guild of St George. His book, After Ruskin, will be published by Oxford University Press in March 2011. He is currently researching Ruskin's reception in Russia

Anita Grants

Anita Grants teaches in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal (Canada). Her PhD (Concordia, 2006) examined the nature of the influence of John Ruskin on art, architecture and art education in Canada during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her MA (Concordia 1995) considered how some of the more radical theories of the mid-nineteenth century, including Ruskin's, had a direct impact on the life and work of Canadian painter/educator Arthur Lismer. Dr. Grants has taught courses at Concordia on nineteenth and twentieth century art and architecture, as well as on art and propaganda, Leonardo da Vinci and pop culture, and on Pop Art. She is a regular invited lecturer at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; her topics have included decorative arts, the painting of Edouard Vuillard, artistic life in early twentieth-century Paris, and the role of English art in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Carmen Casaliggi

Dr Carmen Casaliggi is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales in Cardiff, UK. Her research interests include the relationship between literature and the visual arts, Romanticism, Ruskin and nineteenth-century European literature and culture. She has published several articles on Ruskin and Turner and her collection of essays (co-edited with Paul March-Russell) - Ruskin in Perspective: Contemporary Essays was published by Cambridge Scholars in 2007 (pbk 2010). For the Routledge Studies in Romanticism Series she is now editing an anthology entitled Romantic Legacies: Literature, Aesthetics, Landscape (forthcoming, 2012).

Bénédicte Coste

Bénédicte Coste teaches English at the University of Montpellier and translation at City University (London). She has translated some 20 essays by Walter Pater (including essays on Greek art and mythology, Houdiard, 2010), and Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture (forthcoming 2010) as well as essays by A. Symons et B. Berenson (Houdiard 2009 & 2010). She has published Pater Critique littéraire (Ellug, 2010). Her book-length study of Pater's aesthetics will be published by PULM in Spring 2011.

Rachel Dickinson

Rachel Dickinson is a Senior Lecturer in and Programme Leader for English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Crewe campus. Prior to that, she was from 2005 an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK) Research Associate on the three-year ‘John Ruskin, Cultural Travel and Popular Access’ project based at Lancaster University’s Ruskin Centre. Her edition of Ruskin letters, John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters, was published by Legenda in 2009. Her current research interest is in Ruskin and textiles.

Announcement: The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today No. 5

The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today No. 5 is now online http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/Ruskin5/ToC.htm. The Eighth Lamp is an online and double blind refereed journal published on the teachings and research on Ruskin.

It is led and managed by Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Founding Editor and Co-Editor), Lecturer in Histor in the Architecture Programme at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Co-Editor), Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. It is part of The Oscholars group of journals (www.oscholars.com) edited by David Charles Rose and it is published by Rivendale Press, UK. It has a growing community of scholars now part of the Editorial board that aims to provide the intellectual and pedagogical support and leadership to the journal.

The Oscholars site has a monthly audience of over 45,000, which complements the readership of The Eighth Lamp, and the journal alone is circulated to over 100 scholars and academics internationally. The journal is listed in key Victorian studies and nineteenth century literature, culture, and visual studies forums. The Eighth Lamp can be accessed via the following link: http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/index.htm. Please feel free to browse through the contents.

We invite our contributors to send in news, events, titles of publications, articles, reviews, creative work, and abstracts related to Ruskin. Please email these directly to theeighthlamp@gmail.com latest by March for July-August publication and September for a December-January publication. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing process.

We hope you enjoy this issue.

With thanks,

Dr Anuradha Chatterjee

Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

Final Call for Submissions The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today No. 6

The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today is an online and double blind refereed journal published on the teachings and research on Ruskin. The scope of the journal is multidisciplinary and it welcomes submissions related to art, religion, historiography, social criticism, tourism, economics, philosophy, science, architecture, photography, preservation, cinema, and theatre. It reports research, publications, and events related to John Ruskin; and it publishes papers, abstracts, book reviews, creative essays, and art works by scholars interested in the teachings of Ruskin.

The Eighth Lamp is led and managed by Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Founding Editor and Co-Editor) Lecturer in History and Theory in Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, Australia, and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Co-Editor), Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. It is part of The Oscholars group of journals (www.oscholars.com) edited by David Charles Rose and it is published by Rivendale Press, UK. It has a growing community of scholars now part of the Editorial board that aims to provide the intellectual and pedagogical support and leadership to the journal.

The Oscholars site has a monthly audience of over 45,000, which complements the readership of The Eighth Lamp, and the journal alone is circulated to over 100 scholars and academics internationally. The journal is listed in key Victorian studies and nineteenth century literature, culture, and visual studies forums. The Eighth Lamp can be accessed via the following link: http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/index.htm. Please feel free to browse through the contents.

We invite our contributors to send in news, events, titles of publications, articles, reviews, creative work, and abstracts related to Ruskin. Please email these directly to theeighthlamp@gmail.com latest by March for July-August publication and September for a December-January publication. Scholarly papers should be submitted at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing process.

Call for papers - The Eighth Lamp - Issue 5 2010-2011

Dear colleagues,

We hope you have had the opportunity to peruse the fourth issue of The
Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today 2010, which his now online
http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/Ruskin4/ToC.htm.

We are accepting submissions for January/February 2010-2011 issue. We
invite our contributors to send in news, events, titles of
publications, articles, reviews, creative work, and abstracts related
to Ruskin. Please email these directly to theeighthlamp@gmail.com by
November end, or as appropriate. Scholarly papers should be submitted
at least six to eight months in advance to allow for the refereeing
process.

Thank you and we hope you find it a useful and an engaging resource.

Thank you,


Anu



Dr Anuradha Chatterjee and Dr Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Editors)
The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today
www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/index.htm

NOW ONLINE The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today Volume 2 Number 1 2009

Dear colleagues,

This is to notify you that The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today Volume 2 Number 1 is now online. Please click http://www.oscholars.com/Ruskin/Ruskin3/ToC.htm to go straight to this issue. The issue can also be accessed via http://www.oscholars.com/, which is the home page of The Oscholar group of journals. The Eighth Lamp is a double blind refereed journal and it is published by Rivendale Press, UK. I would like to convey my sincerest thanks to David Rose (Editor, Oscholars) and Steven Halliwell (Rivendale Press) for their unconditional and generous assistance with editing and publishing this journal.

The table of contents:

Statement of Purpose

Editorial
Abstracts
Article
Associations
Conferences
Creative Scholarship

Current research

Events
Exhibitions
Published & Forthcoming Works

Reviews
Works in Progress

Notes for Contributors

We hope you enjoy this issue. Please do not hesitate to send us your comments. Many thanks for your interest and participation in this growing venture.

Best

Anu
Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Editor)

Dr Carmen Casaliggi (Deputy Editor)

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