Ruskin After 200

Thinking with Ruskin in the Twenty-First Century
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-72462-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic on capitalist economics and industrialization’s toll on the environment. Two hundred years after Ruskin’s birth, his relevance to art, literature, history, architecture, economics and natural science has not ebbed. However, the nature of Ruskin’s relevance has evolved considerably. This volume offers a cross-section of current scholarship, showing how a range of scholars continue to engage with Ruskin’s work in their research. The chapters provide a snapshot both of what scholars need from Ruskin over 200 years after his birth and of how they continue to develop methodologies that allow them to keep in honest conversation with his writing – work that is wide-ranging, visionary and nuanced, but also elusive, promiscuously mixing the symbolic and scientific, and at times, deeply marred by the shortcomings of sexism, racism and rigid hierarchical thinking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Sara L.

Stoddart, Judith

K. Kreisel, Deanna

Woodson-Boulton, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Sara L. Maurer and Judith Stoddart.-SECTION ONE: RUSKIN’S PROJECTS AT 200.- Ruskin’s Guild of St George, Yesterday and To-Day - Clive Wilmer.- The Brantwood Parables - Howard Hull.- SECTION TWO: RUSKIN’S REACH.- Ruskin, Wordsworth, Stevens and the Pathetic Fallacy - Henry Weinfield.- ‘He who shoots at beauty’: Thoreau on the Wings of Ruskin - Laura Dassow Walls.- Ruskin for Whitechapel - Lucy Hartley.- SECTION THREE: RUSKIN AND THE ART OF TECHNOLOGY.- Art and Brutality - Morna O’Neill.- Ruskin’s Media: Technologies of the Gothic - Rachel Teukolsky.- Ruskin’s Rubbish - Deanna K. Kreisel.- SECTION FOUR: RUSKIN, PROPHET OF THE ANTHROPOCENE.- Ethics of the Golden Dustman: Ruskinian Dickens and an Ethics of Care - Sharon Aronofsky Weltman.- John Ruskin and the Green New Deal, Or What Connects the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Great Recession, and Zombies - Amy Woodson-Boulton.- Can Carbon Taxes Be Pious? - David Craig.-John Ruskin in the Age of COVID-19 - Vicky Albritton and Fredrik AlbrittonJonsson.

Über Autor(innen)

Deanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and co-director of Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi, USA.



Sara L. Maurer is Associate Professor Emerita of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA.



Judith Stoddart is Vice Provost for University Arts and Collections and associate professor of English at Michigan State University, USA.



Amy Woodson-Boulton is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, USA.