Footnote 11, Chapter 6, of the author's Ruskin's Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works, which Cornell University Press published in 1985. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
indicates a link to material not in the original print version. [GPL]. For the relationship of pathetic fallacy to the historical survey of landscape, see Jay Fellows, The Failing Distance: The Autobiographical Impulse in John Ruskin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 45-48. In general Fellows argues that Ruskin resists the "autobiographical impulse," the temptation to collapse landscape and self. Landscape history in Modern Painters III is an early version of Praeterita, an "efficacious" autobiography that resists the temptation to collapse self and world by correlating the personal past with history; but a second kind of autobiography is the pathetic fallacy, which "does not so much answer needs as create problems." Fellows argues, as I have, that the pathetic fallacy represents a deficiency of self, an imbalance between self and world.
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