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SUMMARY:Grahame\, Ruskin and the Medieval Worlds of The Wind in the Willow
 s - Professor Seth Lerer\, University of California
DTSTART:20150519T160000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the ways in which Grahame drew on Ruski
 n's aesthetic theories and idioms to create a sense of sublime\, aesthetic
  response among the characters in _The Wind in the Willows_. It looks\, in
  particular\, at the ways in which Ruskin developed his sense of the behol
 der in his discussions of art history and in his own engagement with medie
 val manuscript illumination. It then turns to the imagery of _The Wind in 
 the Willows_ to see these relationships among medievalism\, aesthetics\, a
 nd illumination as shaping the key dramatic moments in the work. In the en
 d\, it hopes to suggest some new ways of understanding the place of late-n
 ineteenth- and early-twentieth-century medievalism in the formations of ch
 ildren's literature. \n\n*Seth Lerer* is Distinguished Professor of Litera
 ture and former Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Californi
 a at San Diego. He has published widely on Medieval and Renaissance litera
 ture\, Children's Literature\, and the History of the English Language. Hi
 s book\, _Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Po
 tter_\, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Truman Capote P
 rize in Criticism. He has also published an annotated edition of _The Wind
  in the Willows_ with Harvard University Press and a memoir\, _Prospero's 
 Son_\, with the University of Chicago Press.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room 2S8
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