“The pious secret of how to wait for us”

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_20539
dc.title	“The pious secret of how to wait for us”. The Adaptation of the Ruskinian Picturesque in Henry James’s Venetian Essays
dc.contributor.author	Francescato Simone
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2024/11/the-pious-secret-of-how-to-wait-for-us/
dc.description.abstract	The essay examines the Venetian essays included in Henry James’s Italian Hours (1909) in relation to the aesthetic category of the picturesque, discussing textual revision and the ways in which the writer progressively returned to the concept, transformed it, and blatantly deployed it in a fashion that was consistent with John Ruskin’s own ultimate understanding of it in the last volumes of Modern Painters. The essay contends that it is indeed in the Venetian essays that one can find significant evidence of James’s enduring dialogue with Ruskin and his aesthetic theories. Far from emerging as a trite convention, the revived picturesque in James’s essays proves to be a valid means to understand the effects of modernization in Venice and to remind the reader of its eternal, but fragile, beauty.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 11 \| December 2024
dc.issued	2025-03-07
dc.dateAccepted	2025-10-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2024-08-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2024/11/007
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Henry James
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	Picturesque
dc.subject	Venice

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Francescato, Simone. ‘“The Pious Secret of How to Wait for Us” The Adaptation of the Ruskinian Picturesque in James’s Venetian Essays’. English Literature, no. 11 (7 March 2025). https://doi.org/10.30687/el/2420-823x/2024/11/007.
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Francescato, Simone. ‘“The Pious Secret of How to Wait for Us” The Adaptation of the Ruskinian Picturesque in James’s Venetian Essays’. English Literature, no. 11, Mar. 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.30687/el/2420-823x/2024/11/007.

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