Ruskin, Turner, and Modernism

Women and Psychiatric Modernism

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...

The great contrarian: John Ruskin.

John Ruskin (1819–1900) occupies an interesting position on the map of scholarship. He was essentially a critic who became an undisputed opinion leader in matters of art and architecture in his time. He was nearly forgotten for several decades. Only toward the end of the 20th century did his contribution begin to be reevaluated. Ruskin was born in London and studied in Oxford from 1836 to 1842,...

Modernism and Nation Building

Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism

(NLR 146), Fredric Jameson argues that pastiche, rather than parody, is the appropriate mode of postmodernist culture. ‘Pastiche’, he writes, ‘is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar mask, speech in a dead language; but it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody’s ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongsid...

Women and Psychiatric Modernism

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...