Persistent Ruskin : studies in influence, assimilation, and effect / edited by Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment. Spreading the word: readerships, audiences, listeners. Lawrence Goldman / Ruskin and the working classes in mid-Victorian Britain; Marcus Waithe / John Ruskin and the Idea of a museum; Rachel Dickinson / Of Ruskin, women and power; Brian Maidment / Influence, presence, appropriation: Ruskin and the periodicals -- Followers and their sites of influence. Francis O'Gorman / Did Ruskin support the Pre-Raphaelites?; Peter Yeandle / Christian Socialism on the stage: Henry Arthur Jones's wealth and the dramatisation of Ruskinian political economy; Andrew Leng / Enduring Ruskin? Bloomsbury's anxiety of influence; Anuradha Chatterjee / Ruskin's theory of the ideal dress and textile analogy in medieval architecture -- World-wide Ruskin. Melissa Renn Deep / Seers: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore and the teaching of art at Harvard; Mark Stiles / Masters and men: Ruskin and the Sydney building world in the 1890s; Tony Pinkney / Ruskin and the terraforming of Mars; Keith Hanley / The Ruskin diaspora.

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Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskin's intellectual legacy to working men and women, especially through education, collections and museums, and popular print culture, and the range of his following in literary culture, theatre and design. The volume also studies the extent to which Ruskin's work has informed a global network of aesthetic, social and political movements which, to a greater or lesser.

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