SOURCE: “The Architecture of Empire: ‘Oriental’ Gothic and the Problem of British Identity in Ruskin's Venice,” in Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1997, pp. 109-20.
In the following essay, Ogden explores how John Ruskin helped to introduce elements of Orientalism into the Gothic Revival in Great Britain by shifting focus in his Stones of Venice from medieval Britain to medieval Italy.
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