“Read with Attention”: John Cassell, John Ruskin, and the History of Close Reading

• Autor: Selbin, Jesse Cordes
• Assuntos: 19th century ; 20th century ; Authors ; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes ; Cassell, John ; Close reading ; Education ; Essays ; History ; History instruction ; Literacy ; Literary criticism ; Methods ; Native culture ; New Criticism ; Pedagogy ; Philology ; Politics ; Proletariat ; Readers ; Reading ; Ruskin, John ; Social aspects ; Teachers ; Victorian literature ; Victorian period ; Workforce ; Working class ; Working class in television ; Writers
• É parte de: Victorian studies, 2016-03, Vol.58 (3), p.493-521
• Descrição: Before the rise of New Criticism and outside its institutions, prominent Victorians promoted close reading and critical thought as the backbone of mass education. Among them, John Cassell and John Ruskin incorporated literary-critical protocols as integral components of the pedagogical programs they directed to working-class readers. The protocols were popularly transmitted through periodical culture and motivated by reformist political goals. Though their methods differed, Cassell and Ruskin shared an investment in the strong social relevance of reading. Situating these cases within a longer genealogy of literary criticism and interpretation, this essay suggests that a more capacious history of close reading sheds new light on what remains a core method of literary study.
  
• Editor: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  
• Idioma: Inglês