{"id":107488,"date":"2017-02-07T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107488"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:39:08","slug":"the-man-who-gave-bronte-eyes-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/the-man-who-gave-bronte-eyes-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Gave Bront\u00eb Eyes, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107489\" style=\"width: 743px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/vanity_fair_caricature_of_ruskin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107489\" class=\"wp-image-107489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/vanity_fair_caricature_of_ruskin.jpg\" width=\"733\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/vanity_fair_caricature_of_ruskin.jpg 733w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/vanity_fair_caricature_of_ruskin-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A caricature of John Ruskin from <i>Vanity Fair<\/i>, 1872.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let\u2019s say you had to choose one genre, just one, in which you\u2019d prefer your politicians to write with rigor\u00a0and fluency. Political theory, you might say. Or biography. Probably not even those of us with a bona-fide death wish for the republic (anarchists, accelerationists, the Joker) would say \u201cCivil War alternate history.\u201d But that\u2019s exactly what we have in Bannon and Gingrich\u2014connoisseurs of the uniquely depraved world of ahistorical warmongering. Paul Mason writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/feb\/06\/some-of-trumps-advisers-want-a-new-civil-war-we-must-not-let-them-have-it\" target=\"_blank\">Bannon, the White House chief of staff and Donald Trump\u2019s closest aide, believes the next phase of American history\u00a0should be as catastrophic and traumatic as the conflict of 1861\u201365<\/a> \u2026 [Gingrich] took time out from impeaching Bill Clinton to co-author three excruciatingly dire alt-history novels about the Civil War. In <em>Never Call Retreat<\/em>, the final in the trilogy, written by Gingrich with William Forstchen and Albert Hanser, the Union side wins the war but, by implication, the South wins the peace. With Sherman\u2019s Union army poised to destroy Atlanta, the Confederate commander, Robert E Lee, persuades the South to surrender. \u2018The patience of our opponents is at an end,\u2019 this fictional Lee tells the Confederate government. \u2018We shall reap a terrible whirlwind that will scar our nation for generations to come.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Aslanyan writes on the exasperating indifference with which the court system treats its interpreters, who are only responsible for, you know, 100 percent of the communication between the state and the accused: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/anna-aslanyan\/shambles-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">Translation is like rubbish collection: no one notices it until something goes wrong<\/a> \u2026 Much of court interpreting is simultaneous: you sit next to a defendant and whisper in their ear as you listen to the proceedings. You have to be familiar with legal procedures and fluent in legalese as there is no time to decode \u2018ABH\u2019 or invent a term for \u2018corporate manslaughter\u2019. You also need to be able to temper your language depending on who you are interpreting for: a drug addict going through withdrawal, a graduate with some knowledge of legal arguments, or an emotionally unstable person with a patchy understanding of the situation. These skills require constant practice \u2026 As qualified interpreters stop working for the courts, standards keep slipping\u2014yet more evidence, if it were needed, that outsourcing doesn\u2019t improve services.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor John Ruskin. Once he was beloved by the entire Anglophone world; now it\u2019s just my one friend who has Ph.D. in Victorian literature. Recalling Ruskin\u2019s past greatness, Danny Heitman writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/humanities\/2017\/winter\/feature\/john-ruskin-taught-victorian-readers-and-travelers-the-art-cultivation\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s hard for contemporary readers to grasp how famous Ruskin once\u00a0was.<\/a> Reverently read and reflexively quoted, his pronouncements on everything from painting to poetry to private capital rang among his fans with an almost scriptural authority \u2026 Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u00a0claimed that she did not truly perceive visual art until she read Ruskin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Modern Painters<\/em>. Ruskin, she said, \u2018seems to give me eyes.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When Frederic Tuten met the late Harry Mathews, he was determined to make a good impression\u2014a guaranteed way to ensure the opposite. Witness this portrait of badinage in action: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/frederic-tuten-remembers-harry-matthews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Although Harry was only six years older than I, he seemed of another time. And he was<\/a>. He belonged to that fading world of Americans who prized European culture\u2014French especially\u2014and he had gone to live in Paris and had found a home there in a culture that historically favored the unusual, the radical in literature \u2026 I felt a kinship with his wish to avoid the traditional, realist narrative of storytelling, and with his turning away from poetry as a manifestation of personality. He was\u00a0<em>mon semblable\u2014mon fr\u00e8re<\/em>! I wanted to tell him that \u2026 He said, \u2018I was hoping to talk to you \u2026 I always wondered if I would meet you.\u2019 \u2018And I always wondered if I would meet you,\u2019 I answered in stunning repartee.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Frederick Douglass\u2014a man who may still live among us, our president has suggested\u2014was the most photographed person of the nineteenth century. Allison Meier writes of his regard for the camera, which was rooted in a dogged effort to correct the historical record: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/356148\/frederick-douglass-most-photographed-19th-century-american\/\" target=\"_blank\">Each image, whether daguerreotype or\u00a0ambrotype, as the medium progressed, was almost identical<\/a>: Douglass in a suit with a white collar, eyes facing the camera, rarely smiling, with none of the\u00a0zany Victorian backdrops and tricks\u00a0that were popular at the time \u2026 With every photograph \u2018he could present America with an additional image of blackness that contradicted the prevailing racist stereotypes.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the declining renown of John Ruskin; Newt Gingrich\u2019s creepy alt-history obsession; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[27136,4217,2626,17405,5240,12114,8600,27137,9122,11068,100,25934,530,19765],"class_list":["post-107488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-alternate-history","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-civil-war","tag-courts","tag-frederic-tuten","tag-frederick-douglass","tag-harry-mathews","tag-interpreters","tag-john-ruskin","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-photography","tag-steve-bannon","tag-translation","tag-victorian-england"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s Favorite Critic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news roundup: the declining renown of John Ruskin; 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