Persistent Ruskin：Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin''s engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin''s intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin''s followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin''s work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin''s continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin''s persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin''s intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin''s followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin''s work and teaching. Working-class education, the Ruskinian periodical, plays, and science fiction are all considered along with the Bloomsbury Group''s engagement with Ruskin''s thought and writing. Essays on Ruskin abroad-in America, Australia, and India round out the collection.