PHAIDRA – Collezioni digitali

The essays gathered in this issue are a selection of the contributions presented at the International Conference "Adaptation, Revision and Re-use: Modes and Legacies of Ruskin’s Work", organized by FoRS, the Centre for Ruskin Studies at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies of Ca’ Foscari University Venice, in collaboration with the Policlinico di Torino and the Guild of St George.
Held in Venice in December 2023, the conference invited scholars working in a variety of fields, ranging from literature to art, from architecture to social and environmental studies, to participate in a multi- and interdisciplinary dialogue.

SOMMARIO

“The Interwoven Temper of my Mind”: Ruskin and Adaptation
Emma Sdegno, Simone Francescato

Revisioning the Image. Ruskin’s ‘Iconology-in-Progress’
Paul Tucker

Upcycling Antiquity in "Unto This Last"
Mark Usher

John Ruskin and Climate. The Storm-Cloud of the Anthropocene
Francesca Orestano

Ruskin’s Poetics of Mountains and the Victorian Alpine Spirit
William Bainbridge

Tracing Ruskin’s Threads: Legacies in Linen, Lace and Place
Rachel Dickinson, Déirdre Kelly

The “Whitelands Index”: The Making of John Pincher Faunthorpe’s "Index to Fors Clavigera"
Satomi Hanazumi

“The Pious Secret of How to Wait for Us”. The Adaptation of the Ruskinian Picturesque in Henry James’s Venetian Essays
Simone Francescato

ARTICLES
The Feminine Predicament. Exploring the Unique Vitality of Rossetti’s Poetry Vis-à-Vis Mill’s Approach to Feminism
Atrija Ghosh