Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern
Edited by Dinah Birch
Price: £67.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818454-6
Publication date: 8 April 1999
208 pages, 13 b/w plates, 216x138 mm
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| - 'an interesting collection of essays ... The various contributors to this book do some useful work in reestablishing Ruskin's reputation as one of the most pervasive influences on the cultural milieu of the Victorian age.' - Nicholas Salmon, The Jnl of the William Morris Society, Vol. XIII, No.4, Spring 00.
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This interdisciplinary collection of original essays reconsiders John Ruskin's legacy, suggesting that the vigour and vitality of his late work played an important role in shaping the twentieth-century mind. The contributors have focused on such diverse areas as Ruskin's thinking on music, his impact on social reform policies and the British Labour movement, his influence on scientific and
artistic education, the complexities of his relationship with aestheticism, and on his writing in Fors Clavigera
. Together, the essays expose the extraordinarily pervasive influence that Ruskin's work had on central cultural debates of the late Victorian era. Moreover, they overturn received assumptions about Ruskin's significance in the dawning of the modern sensibility.
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Readership: Undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of Ruskin, late Victorian culture, and modern British cultural history
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Introduction
Ruskin and Social Reform
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José Harris
Ruskin's Science of the 1870s: Science, Education, and the Nation
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Francis O'Gorman
Ruskin, Oxford, and the British Labour Movement 1880-1914
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Lawrence Goldman
A Line of Absolute Correctness: Teaching Drawing at Oxford
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Paul Tucker and Donata Levi
Goddesses of Instruction and Desire: Ruskin and Music
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Delia da Sousa Correa
Ruskin and the Aesthetes
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Nicholas Shrimpton
Myth and Gender in Ruskin's Science
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Ruskin's Multiple Writing: Fors Clavigera
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Dinah Birch
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Dinah Birch, Tutor and Fellow in English, Trinity College, Oxford
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