Professor Peter Garratt's Outputs (7)

Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry (2016)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2016). Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry. Romanticism, 22(3), 279-288. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0289

The poetry of John Ruskin – which amounts to a surprisingly large body of work, mostly written in the 1830s and 1840s – reveals the stirrings of the moral perceptual attitude that would emerge with such distinctive force in Modern Painters, yet one g... Read More about Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry.

Voices and the Imaginative Ear. (2015)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2015). Voices and the Imaginative Ear. The Lancet, 386(10010), 2248-2249. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2815%2901114-9

“Jesters”, says Regan in King Lear, “do oft prove prophets”. Perhaps so. Try this one: “In everyday life, talking about imaginary people as though they were real is known as psychosis; in universities, it is known as literary criticism.” The jester h... Read More about Voices and the Imaginative Ear..

Beyond the Gene: Roundtable Discussion (2015)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, M., Garratt, P., Mackay, D., Richardson, A., Spector, T., & Temple, K. (2015). Beyond the Gene: Roundtable Discussion. Textual Practice, 29(3), 415-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2015.1020094

Death and Variations: North and South and the Work of Adaptation. (2012)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2012). Death and Variations: North and South and the Work of Adaptation. Gaskell Society journal, 26, 73-87

Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge. (2012)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2012). Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge. Literature Compass, 9(11), 752-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00908.x

This article examines Victorian philosophical responses to fictional worlds. It revisits Coleridge’s coinage of the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’, a phrase still taken to be an explanation of the mind’s inner experience of fictionality, before fo... Read More about Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge..

'That Old Glasgow Suit': Middlemarch, Scotland and the Universities. (2009)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2009). 'That Old Glasgow Suit': Middlemarch, Scotland and the Universities. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies, 56-57, 49-61

Ruskin's Modern Painters and the Visual Language of Reality. (2009)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2009). Ruskin's Modern Painters and the Visual Language of Reality. Journal of Victorian Culture, 14(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.3366/e1355550209000599

Ruskin, the most influential mid-Victorian aesthetician, has typically been affiliated by critics with one of two incongruous regimes of thought; late English romanticism or an emerging counter-paradigm of factual science. Unwilling to refine this op... Read More about Ruskin's Modern Painters and the Visual Language of Reality..