Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

“…In many aspects Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) could have been a fervent disciple of Ruskin: an art lover influenced by the London aesthetes, a great reader of Rio’s work, On Christian Art, a writer on Venice, a political figure who came to adhere to traditionalism, a defender of the churches of France, one of the creators of the 1913 law on national heritage. …”
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La peur du prolétaire et les paradoxes du socialisme shavien dans Widowers’ Houses by Stéphane Guy

“…Beyond the fear that is represented throughout and the dread of capitalism that it seeks to bring about among the Victorian public, the play builds up a dramaturgy of threat, breaking with the fashionable theatres of late nineteenth century London and paradoxically making the proletarian into both a victim and symptom of capitalist immorality.…”
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