Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern

This interdisciplinary collection of original essays reconsiders John Ruskin's legacy, suggesting that the vigor 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 Labor movement, his influence on scientific and artistic education, and on his writing in Fors Clavigera .

Dinah Birch is Tutor and Fellow in English at Trinity College, Oxford

Introduction
Ruskin and Social Reform
Ruskin's Science of the 1870s: Science, Education, and the Nation
Ruskin, Oxford, and the British Labour Movement 1880-1914
A Line of Absolute Correctness: Teaching Drawing at Oxford
Goddesses of Instruction and Desire: Ruskin and Music
Ruskin and the Aesthetes
Myth and Gender in Ruskin's Science
Ruskin's Multiple Writing
Index
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