John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Purton, Valerie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin's influence can be felt increasingly in every sphere education today. John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education brings together top international Ruskin scholars, exploring Ruskin's many-faceted writings, pointing to some of the key educational issues raised by his work, and concluding with a powerful rereading of his ecological writing and apocalyptic vision of the earth's future. In anticipation of the bicentennial of Ruskin's birth in 2019, this volume makes a fresh and significant contribution to Victorian studies in the twenty-first century. It is dedicated to Dinah Birch, a much-loved Victorian specialist and authority on John Ruskin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783088072
• Artikelnr.: 52919984

Autorenporträt

Valerie Purton is emerita professor of Victorian literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and has published widely on the Victorians. She is the author of Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition (2012); editor of the Everyman Dombey and Son (1997) and Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers (2013); and co-author of the Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson (2010) and Poems by Two Brothers: The Poetry of Tennyson's Father and Uncle (1993). Purton has been editor of the Tennyson Research Bulletin since 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Foreword by Francis O'Gorman
Introduction, Valerie Purton
Section A. Changing the World
1. 'An Enormous Difference between Knowledge and Education': What Ruskin Can Teach Us, Sara Atwood
2. 'Souls of Good Quality': Ruskin, Tolstoy and Education, Stuart Eagles
3. 'To Teach Them How to Dress': Ruskin, Clothing and Lessons in Society, Rachel Dickinson
4. Mad Governess or Wise Counsellor? Sesame and Lilies Revisited, Jan Marsh
Section B. Libraries and the Arts
5 'A Very Precious Book': Ruskin's Exegesis of the Psalms in Rock Honeycomb and Fors Clavigera, Emma Sdegno
6. 'Our Household Catalogue of Reference': Ruskin's Lesson Photographs of 1875-76, Stephen Wildman
7. Ruskin, Music and the Health of the Nation, Paul Jackson
8. Ruskin and the Fantastic, Edward James
Section C. Christianity and Apocalypse
9. Ruskin's 'Many-Sided Soulfulness', Keith Hanley
10. 'Catastrophe Will Come': Ruskin, Nation and Apocalypse, Andrew Tate
Notes on Contributors
Index.